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STAFF AND SCRIP 



GEMS OF 



RELIGIOUS THOUGHT 



SELECTED BY 



J. H. GILBERT. 



DEC 26l888„ 



The proverb answers where the sermon fails. — W. G. Simms. 



TROY, N. Y. 

NIMS & KNIGHT, 



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The Librae— 

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Copyright, 1888, 
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Press of A. E. Chasmar & Co., 833 Broadway, N. Y. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 

God : The Almighty Father 5 

The Lord Jesus Christ . . . n 

The Holy Spirit ^ .... 23 

The Inspired Scriptures . 25 

The Sabbath 29 

The Christian Religion 31 

Sin 38 

Salvation : 

Its Nature 43 

Invitations and Warnings 44 

Repentance 47 

Obedience 51 

Saving Faith -54 

Its Completeness 62 

The Christian Life : 

Love to God and Christ 64 

Fellowship and Communion with Jesus ...... 69 

The Divine Presence In . 72 

Likeness to Christ ... * 76 

Following Christ -76 

Faith and Trust 77 

Humility ..... ■ . 83 

Patience . . . . . . . 86 

Manliness . . . . . . * . . . .89 

Courage, . 92 



The Christian Life (Continued.) : 

Liberty . . # 

Cheerfulness and Brightness ^ 

Holiness . . ■ # " # ^ 

Conflict * IQ7 

Activity ■ 109 

Dut y i24 

Self -Denial I2 g 

Brotherly Love • I3I 

Discipline and Sorrow I4Q 

Peace and Rest I55 

Pra 7 er 160 

The Church I7Q 

Death, Resurrection, and Judgment I75 

The Future Life l8o 

The Home. # 

Childhood, Youth, and Old Age L ? 

Bibliography 



GOD: THE ALMIGHTY FATHER. 



THE mystery of the universe, and the meaning 
of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless ob- v 
scurity, until we learn to feel that all laws 
suppose a law-giver, and that all working involves 
a Divine energy. 

Alexander Maclaren. 

What are the sciences but maps of universal 
laws, and universal laws but the channels of uni- 
versal power, and universal power but the outgoings 
of a universal mind ? 

Edward Thomson. 



God is the only sure foundation on which the 
mind can rest. 

Irenceus Prime. 



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Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify 
our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, 
but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, 
and communion with Him. 

E. K Kirk. 



Brother men, one act of charity will teach us 
more of the love of God than a thousand sermons- 
one act of unselfishness, of real self-denial, the putting 
forth of one loving feeling to the outcast and " those 
who are out of the way," will tell us more of the 
Epiphany than whole volumes of the wisest writers 
on theology. 

F. W. Robertson. 



We may search long to find where God is, but 
we shall find Him in those who keep the words of 
Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, < < If any man love 
me, he will keep my words ; and we will make our 
abode with him.' , 

Martin Luther. 

I sought Thee at a distance, and did not know 
that Thou wast near. I sought Thee abroad, and 
behold Thou wast within me. 

St. Augustine. 



GOD: THE ALMIGHTY FATHER. 



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God hides nothing. His very work from the 
beginning is revelation, — a casting aside of veil after 
veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On 
and on from fact Divine He advances, until at length 
in His Son Jesus He unveils His very face. 

George MacDonald. 

We never know through what Divine mysteries 
of compensation the great Father of the universe 
may be carrying out His sublime plan ; but those 
three words, " God is love," ought to contain, to 
every doubting soul, the solution of all things. 

D. M. Craik. 

God s will is the very perfection of all reason. 

Edward Pay son. 

Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, 
there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals 
to us, and that is the infinite ?nd absolute goodness 
of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long 
as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith 
for all the rest. 

Charles Kingsley. 



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There is nothing- left to us but to see how we 
may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the 
weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, 
who is God omnipotent. 

Rutherford. 



The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The 
gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The 
tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. "He that 
hath seen me hath seen the Father/' 

Alexander Maclaren. 



Such was God's original love for man, that He 
was willing to stoop to any sacrifice to save him ; 
and the gift of a Saviour was the mere expression of 
that love. 

Albert Barnes. 



God works in a mysterious way in grace as well 
as in nature, concealing His operations under an 
imperceptible succession of events, and thus keeps 
us always in the darkness of faith. 

Fenelon. 



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I hold that we have a very imperfect Knowledge 
of the works of nature till Ave view them as works of 
God, — not only as works of mechanism, but works 
of intelligence ; not only as under laws, but under a 
Law-giver, wise and good. 

James McCosh. 

When I consider the multitude of associated 
forces which are diffused through nature — when I 
think of that calm balancing of their energies which 
enables those most powerful in themselves, most 
destructive to the world's creatures and economy, to 
dwell associated together and be made subservient 
to the wants of creation, I rise from the contempla- 
tion more than ever impressed with the wisdom, the 
beneficence, and grandeur, beyond our language to 
express, of the Great Disposer of us all. 

Faraday. 

Let me, 0 my God, stifle forever in my heart 
every thought that would tempt me to doubt Thy 
goodness. I know that Thou canst not but be good. 
O merciful Father, let me no longer reason about 
grace, but silently abandon myself to its operation. 

Fenelon. 



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God governs in the affairs of men ; and if a 
sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, 
neither can a kingdom rise without His aid. 

Benjamin Franklin. 

It is when the hour of conflict is over that history 
comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is 
ready to exclaim, "Lo, God is here, and we knew 
Him not ! " 

George Bancroft. 

Says Oliver Cromwell : " What are all histories 
but God manifesting Himself, that He hath shaken 
down and trampled under foot whatsoever He hath 
not planted?" History is not a series of jumbled 
happenings. God is in the facts of history as truly 
as He is in the march of the seasons, the revolution 
of the planets, or the architecture of the worlds. 

John Lanahan. 




THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. 



THE life of Christ concerns Him who, being 
the holiest among the mighty, and the mighti- 
est among the holy, lifted with His pierced 
hands empires off their hinges, and turned the stream 
of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the 
ages. 

Jean Paul Richier. 



No other fame can be compared with that of 
Jesus. He has a place in the human heart that no 
one who ever lived has in any measure rivaled. No 
name is pronounced with a tone of such love and 
veneration. All other laurels wither before His. His 
are ever kept fresh with tears of gratitude. 

W. E. Cha nning. 



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The incarnation of God is a necessity of human 
nature. If we really and truly have a Father, we 
must be able to clasp His feet in our penitence, and 
to lean on His breast in our weary sorrowfulness. 

Charles F. Deems. 



The most destructive criticism has not been able 
to dethrone Christ as the incarnation of perfect holi- 
ness. The waves of a tossing- and restless sea of 
unbelief break at His feet, and He stands still the 
supreme model, the inspiration of great souls, the 
rest of the weary, the fragrance of all Christendom, 
the one divine flower in the garden of God. 

Her rick Johnson. 



Pause, fellow-sinner, fellow-man, before that 
wonderful Being that you find now in the manger, 
now on the cross ; follow His wonderful footsteps ; 
dwell on His words ; hear His prayers ; gaze on 
His tears, — nay, on His flowing blood, until you 
fully and firmly believe, never to doubt it, or forget 
that God loves us when we do not love Him. 

K AT Kirk. 



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There is more of power to sanctify, elevate, 
strengthen, and cheer in the word Jesus (Jehovah- 
Saviour) than in all the utterances of man since the 
world began. 

Charles Hodge. 

All my theology is reduced to this narrow com- 
pass— "Jesus Christ came into the world to save 
sinners." 

Archibald Alexander. 

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are 
very wise and very beautiful ; but I never read in 
either of them, "Come unto me, all ye that labor 
and are heavy laden." 

St. Augustine. 

You never get to the end of Christ's words. 
There is something in them always behind. 7'hey 
pass into proverbs, they pass into laws, they pass 
into doctrines, they pass into consolations; but they 
never pass away, and, after all the use that is made 
of them, they are still not exhausted. 

Dean Stanley. 



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Whoever would fully and feelingly understand 
the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his 
life wholly to the life of Christ. 

Thomas a Kempis. 

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's rela- 
tions with men is what makes His tenderness so ex- 
quisitely touching 

Phillips Brooks. 

God's beloved Son, leaving the echoes of His 
cries upon the mountains and the traces of His weary 
feet upon the streets, shedding His tears over the 
tombs and His blood upon Golgotha, associating His 
life with our homes, and His corpse with our sepul- 
chres, shows us how we, too, may be sons in the 
humblest vale of life, and sure of sympathy in heaven 
amid the deepest wrongs and sorrows of earth. 

Edward Thomson. 

All Christ's - public acts were consecrated by 
prayer, — His baptism, His transfiguration, His mira- 
cles, His agony, His death. He breathed away His 
spirit in prayer. "His last breath," says Philip 
Henry, " was praying breath. " 

/ R. Macduff. 



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The calm, tranquil energy of the Redeemer's 
soul ; the deep strength of principle which nothing 
could shake ; the serene courage which looked down 
upon menaces, clamor, contumely, sacrifice, death, 
— this is the temper which pours contempt upon the 
intrepidity of heroes, but which the Holy Spirit 
infuses into the humble Christian. 

Richard Fuller. 

"Having loved His own which were in the 
world, He loved them to the end/' Often had they 
been faithless ; and now, while addressing them, 
He knows that they will all in a few hours forsake 
Him. Yet He trusts them ; He commits His cause 
to their keeping. And we must love as He loved. 

Richard Fuller. 

It was in His parting sorrow — that Jesus asked 
His disciples to remember Him ; and never was en- 
treaty of affection answered so ; for ever since has 
His name been breathed in morning and evening 
prayers that none can count, and has brought down 
some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of 
bereavement, and the remorse of sin. 

James Martineau. 



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Remember that vision on the Mount of Trans- 
figuration ; and let it be ours, even in the glare of 
earthly joys and brightness, to lift up our eyes, like 
those wondering three, and see no man any more, 
save Jesus only. 

Alexander Maclaren. 

But no sympathy reached His convulsed spirit. 
He was alone ; alone, enduring the curse for us ; 
alone, "bearing our sins in His own body on the 
tree/' and exhausting the fierceness of eternal justice ; 
alone, without succor from man ; alone, without 
one strengthening whisper from angel ; above all, 
alone, without one ray from His Fathers counte- 
nance. And that expiring cry, "My God ! my God! 
why hast Thou forsaken me ? " was the bitter, dreary, 
dismal, piercing wail of a soul utterly deserted- 
wrapped, shrouded in essential, unmitigated desola- 
tion. 

Richard Fuller. 



He was Himself forsaken that none of His 
children might ever need to utter His cry of lone- 
liness. 

J. H. Vincent. 



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Nothing like one honest look, one honest thought 
of Christ upon His cross. That tells us how much 
He has been through, how much He endured, how 
much He conquered, how much God loved us, who 
spared not His only begotten Son, but freely gave 
Him for us. Dare we doubt such a God ? Dare we 
murmur against such a God? 

Charles Kingsley. 



We, too, must enter into the Saviour s sorrow. 
For us, if we believe in Him, He breaks the bread, 
and pours the wine ; and when we eat and drink, we 
do show the Lord s death until He come. His death, 
not His life, though that was lustrous with a holiness 
without the shadow of a stain. His death, not His 
teaching, though that embodied the fullness of a 
wisdom that was Divine. His death, not His mira- 
cles, though His course was a march of mercy, and 
in His track of blessing the world rejoiced and was 
glad. His death ! His body, not glorious, but broken; 
His blood, not coursing through the veins of a con- 
queror, but shed, poured out for man. His death ! 
Still His death ! Grandest and most consecrating 
memory both for earth and heaven ! 

Wm. M. Punshon. 



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O, let us understand that the power of Chris- 
tianity lies not in a hazy indefiniteness, not in 
shadowy forms, not so much even in definite truths 
and doctrines, but in the truth and the doctrine. There 
is but one Christ crucified. All the gathered might 
of the infinite God is in that word. 

Her rick Johnson. 

The world cannot bury Christ The earth is 
not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not 
wide enough for his winding-sheet ; He ascends into 
the heavens, but the heavens cannot contain Him. 
He still lives — in the church which burns un con- 
sumed with His love ; in the truth that reflects His 
image ; in the hearts which burn as He talks with 
them by the way. 

Edward Thomson. 

No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend 
in affliction as does Jesus. " In all our .afflictions, 
He is afflicted." He feels all our sorrows, wants, 
and burdens as His own. Whence it is that the 
sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of 
Christ. 

John Ftavel. 



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Jesus lives ! the same comforting, helping, in- 
structing, loving Elder Brother, as when John leaned 
on His bosom, as when He lifted Peter up from the 
waves, as when He dried Mary's tears with His 
-Thy' sins are forgiven thee/' Jesus lives! the 
same almighty Saviour, Guide, Intercessor, as when 
He ascended to glory with the broken fetters of sin 
and death in His pierced hands. 

A. E. Kittredge. 



To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and 
languishing, Jesus has been the Great Physician to- 
day ; in many a weeping circle around precious 
dust' He has been the Divine Comforter, and the 
tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has 
touched the bier. . Dying lips have whispered His 
name, and the valley of the shadow has been illu- 
mined as with the glory from the celestial shores. 

A. E. Kittredge. 



Nearer, O Christ to Thee. Nearer to the open 

side ; nearer to the eyes that wept in love because I 

was a sinner ; nearer to the scarred hand that wields 

the sceptre of dominion. 

v T. M. Eddy, 



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The hoary centuries are full of Him ; the echoes 
of His sweet voice are heard to-day ; His love has 
perfumed the past eighteen hundred years, and He 
lives to-day, as the Head of His church ; He lives 
to-day, the object of the warmest adoration, the 
most passionate love, for whom millions would die 
this very hour. Empires have fallen, thrones have 
crumbled ; but Jesus lives, His empire extending 
every day, His throne gaining new trophies of His 
grace. 

A. E. Kittredge. 

All we want in Christ, we shall find in Christ. 
If we want little, we shall find little. If we want 
much, we shall find much ; but if in utter helpless- 
ness we cast our all on Christ, He will be to us the 
whole treasury of God. 

Bishop Whipple. 

What will you do with Jesus ? Do with Him did 
I say? O what, what will you do without Himr 
What, when affliction and anguish shall come upon 
you? what, when closing your eyelids in death? 
what, when appearing before the awful judgment- 
seat - ? 

Richard Fuller. 



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"Lo\ I am with you always, even to the end 
of the world/' is not an idle— not an unfulfilled 
promise. He is not with us merely as a thought, 
but as a life. He gathers us up into His own being. 
He floods us with it. There is inspiration here, cer- 
tainty for any duty, for any endurance. The faith, 
Christ with me, can make the poorest and the hardest 
life luminous, joyous, glorious. 

Way land Hoyt. 



I come to Thee, 0 Christ ! Faint and perishing, 
defenceless and needy, with many a sin and many 
a fear, to Thee I turn, for Thou hast died for me, 
and for me Thou dost live. Be Thou my shelter 
and strong tower. Give me to drink of living water. 
Let me rest in Thee while in this weary land ; and 
let Thy sweet love, my Brother and my Lord, be 
mine all on earth and the heaven of my heaven. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



Yes, we have throned Him in our minds and 

hearts the cynosure of our wandering thoughts — 

the monarch of our warmest affections, hopes, de- 
sires. This we have done. And the more we medi- 



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tateupon His astonishing love, His amazing sacrifice, 
the more we feel that if we had a thousand minds, 
hearts, souls, we would crown Him Lord of all. 
Living we will live in Him, for Him, to Him. Dying, 
we will clasp Him in our arms, and, with Simeon, 
welcome death as the consummation of bliss. 

Richard Fuller. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 



AS the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, 
so the Spirit is the fountain of all spiritual life ; 
and until He quickens us, imparts the principle 
of divine life to our souls, we can put forth no vital 
act of faith to lay hold upon Jesus Christ. 

John FlaveL 



Culture is good, genius is brilliant, civilization 
is a blessing, education is a great privilege ; but we 
may be educated villains. The thing that we want 
most of all is the precious gift of the Holy Ghost. 

John Hall. 



A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it 
had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the 
New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity. 

William Arthur. 



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Consciously, distinctly, resolutely, habitually, 
we need to give ourselves, our business, our in- 
terest, our families, our affections, into the Spirit's 
hands, to lead and fashion us as He will. When we 
work with the current of that Divine will, all is vital, 
efficient, fruitful. 

F. D. Huntington. 

We are not saved on account of the Holy Ghost's 
work in us ; we are saved by means of it. We are 
saved on account of Christ's work for us. The Spirit 
never tells us to look inward even to His own opera- 
tions, for peace, but outward to Christ. 

W. P. Mackay. 

Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Chris- 
tian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do 
in a modest way, and with a disposition of inde- 
scribable tenderness. 

C. S. Robinson. 

There is no reason to believe that the Holy 
Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they 
leave the truth of God for some error or sin. 

Ichabod Spencer. 



THE INSPIRED SCRIPTURES, 



On the day of Pentecost Christianity faced the 
world, a new religion, without a history, without a 
priesthood, without a college, without a people, and 
without a patron. She had only her two sacraments 
and her tongue of fire. The latter was her sole in- 
strument of aggression. 

William Arthur. 



THE INSPIRED SCRIPTURES. 



THE Bible is a window in this prison-world 
through which we may look into eternity. 

Timothy Dwight. 

One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles 
from earthly streams. 

Robert McCheyne. 

The Bible is the most thought-suggesting book 
in the world. No other deals with such grand 
themes. 

Her rick Johnson. 



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You will want a book which contains, not man's 
thoughts, but God's — not a book that may amuse 
you, but a book that can save you — not even a book 
that can instruct you, but a book on which you can 
venture an eternity — not only a book which can give 
relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul — 
a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to 
you, one which shall at once be the Saviour s book 
and the sinner's. 

John Selden. 

The grand old book of God still stands ; and 
this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over 
and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate 
the Sacred word. 

James D. Dana. 

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. 

Richard Cecil. 

As revelation is the great strengthener of reason, 
the march of mind which leaves the Bible in the 
rear, is an advance, like that of our first parents in 
Paradise, towards knowledge, but, at the same time, 
towards death. 

Henry Melvill. 



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The sum and substance of the preparation 
needed for a coming- eternity is- that you believe 
what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids 
you. 

Chalmers. 

If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and 
you are an immortal being, what are you doing with 
your Bible shut ? 

Herrick Johnson. 

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the 
best preparation for a wise study of the Bible. 

H. Clay Trumbull. 

In all God's providences, it is good to compare 
His word and His works together ; for we shall find 
a beautiful harmony between them, and that they 
mutually illustrate each other. 

Matthew Henry. 

The reason why we find so many dark places in 
the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so 
many dark places in our hearts. 

A. Tholuck. 



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When you are reading- a book in a dark room, 
and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window 
to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ 

Robert McCheyne. 

If thou desire to profit, read with humility, sim- 
plicity, and. faithfulness ; nor even desire the repute 
of learning. 

Thomas a Kempis. 

Merely reading the Bible is of no use at all without 
we study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it 
were, for some great truth. 

D. L. Moody. 

If thou knewest the whole Bible by heart, and 
the sayings of all the philosophers, what would it 
profit thee without the love of God and without 
grace ? 

Thomas a Kempis. 

Let the Bible itself dwell in you — Christ's own 
word in Christ's own tone— the truth as it was in 
Jesus — truth dissolved in love, and redolent of 
sanctity. 

yames Hamilton. 



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Give the Bible the place in your families to which 
it is justly entitled, and then, through the unsearch- 
able riches of Christ, many a household among you 
may hereafter realize that most blessed consumma- 
tion, and appear a whole family in heaven. 

H. A. Boardman. 

Do you know a book that you are willing to put 
under your head for a pillow when you lie dying ? 
Very well ; that is the book you want to study while 
you are living. There is but one such book in the 
world. Joseph Cook. 

THE SABBATH. 

NOTHING draws along with it such a glory 
as the Sabbath. Never has it unfolded with- 
out some witness and welcome, some song 
and salutation. It has been the coronation day of 
martyrs — the first day of saints. It has been from 
the first day till now the sublime day of the church 
of God ; still the outgoings of its morning and eve- 
ning rejoice. Let us then remember the Sabbath- 
day to keep it holy. 

James Hamilton. 



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Sunday is the golden clasp that binds togethei 

the volume of the week. 

Longfellow. • 

I have, by long and sound experience, found 
that the due observance of the Sabbath-day, and of 
the duties of it, have been of singular comfort and 
advantage to me. The observance of the day hath 
ever had joined to it a blessing upon the rest of my 
time ; and the week that hath so begun hath been 
blessed and prosperous to me. 

Sir Matthew Hale. 

Tell me how a professor spends his Sabbaths, 
and I will tell you in what state his soul is, spiritually 
considered. 

John Angel James, 



THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. 



RELIGION is the tie that connects man with his 
Creator, and holds him to His throne. 

Daniel Webster. 

All noblest things are religious, — not temples 
and martyrdoms only, but the best books, pictures, 
poetry, statues, and music. 

Wm. Mountford. 

Human things must be known to be loved ; but 
Divine things must me loved to be known. 

Pascal. 

How admirable is that religion which, while it 
seems to have in view only the felicity of another 
world, is at the same time the highest happiness of 
this. 

Montesquieu. 



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^4c/upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine 
Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of 
its truth. 

Edward Thomson. 

The real difficulty with thousands in the present 
day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, 
but that it has never been seriously tried. 

H. P. Liddon. 

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely 
pictured windows. Standing without you see no 
glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is 
visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. 
Standing within all is clear and defined ; every ray 
of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors. 

John Ruskin. 

The strong argument for the truth of Christianity 
is the true Christian ; the man filled with the spirit of 
Christ. The best proof of Christ's resurrection is a 
living church, which itself is walking in a new life, 
and drawing life from Him who hath overcome death. 

Christlieb. 



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It awes by the majesty of its truths, it agitates 
by the force of its compunctions, it penetrates the 
heart by the tenderness of its appeals, and it casts 
over the abyss of thought, the shadow of its eternal 
grandeur. 

Henry Giles. 

If ever Christianity appears in its power, it is 
when it erects its trophies upon the tomb ; when it 
takes up its votaries where the world leaves them ; 
and fills the breast with immortal hope in dying 
moments. 

Robert Hall 

The distinction between Christianity and all 
other systems of religion consists largely in this, 
that in these other, men are found seeking alter God, 
while Christianity is God seeking after man. 

Thomas Arnoid. 

Christianity is, above all other religions ever 
known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded 
on the greate t of all sacrifices the sacrifice of the 
Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary. 

Dean Si an Icy. 



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Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and 
sorrow triumphant. 

E. H. Chapin. 

Our abiding belief is that just as the workmen 
in the tunnel of St. Gothard, working from either 
end, met at last to shake hands in the very central 
root of the mountain, so students of nature and 
students of Christianity will yet join hands in the 
unity of reason and faith, in the heart of their deepest 
mysteries. 

Lemuel Moss. 



There is not a single spot between Christianity 
and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his 
foot. 

Emmons. 



A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to athe- 
ism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds 
about to religion, 

Francis Bacon. 



There never yet was a mother who taught her 
child to be an infidel. 

Henry W. Shaw. 



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There is one single fact that one may oppose to 
all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no 
man ever repented of being a Christian on his death- 
bed.. 

Hannah More. 

No one who has not examined patiently and 
honestly the other religions of the world can know 
what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth 
and sincerity in the words of St. Paul, "1 am not 
ashamed of the gospel of Christ." 

Max Muller. 

To judge religion we must have it — not stare at 
it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable 
ladder. 

George Mac Donald. 

Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There 
is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The 
attempt to stifle them is in vain. If their cry be 
drowned by the noise of the world, they do not 
cease to exist. They must be answered. 

I. T. Hecker. 



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Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of 
man. 

Francis Bacon. 

The infidelity that springs from the heart is not 
to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences 
of Christianity ; argument did not cause, and argu- 
ment will not remove it. 

Mark Hopkins. 

If you wish io be assured of the truth of Chris- 
tianity, try it Believe, and if thy belief be right, 
that insight which g-adually transmutes faith into 
knowledge will be the reward of thy belief. 

S. T. Coleridge. 

We must not let go manifest truths because we 
cannot answer all questions about them. 

Jeremy Collier. 



He that will believe only what he can fully com- 
prehend, must have a very long head, or a very 
short creed. 

C. C. Gallon. 



THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. 



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Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and 
learn their divineness by sick-beds and in every-day 
work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual 
puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never 
breed vital religion or practical usefulness. 

Charles Kingsley. 

Criticism is not religion, and by no process can 
it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but 
the child's heart, that most truly discerns the coun- 
tenance that looks out from the pages of the gospel. 

J. C. Shairp. 

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation ; and 
obligation has no meaning except as implying a 
Divine command, without which it would cease to 
be. 

J. A. Froude. 



SIN. 



H 



E that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had 
great thoughts of God. 

John Owen. 



The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing 
in God's world. You never were made for sin and 
selfishness. You were made for love and obedience. 

/ G. Holland. 



The very heart and root of sin is an independent 
spirit. We erect the idol self ; and not only wish 
others to worship, but worship ourselves. 

Richard Cecil. 



SIN. 



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God save us from ourselves ! We carry within 
us the elements of hell if we but choose to make 
them such. Ahaz, Judas, Nero, Borgia, Herod,— all 
were once prattling infants in happy mothers' arms. 

Austin Phelps. 



There is the seed of all sins— of the vilest and 
worst of sins — in the best of men. 

Thomas Brooks. 



Yes, every sin is a mistake, and the epitaph for 
the sinner is, " Thou fool. '' 

Alexa?ider Maclaren. 



Selfishness is the making a man's self his own 
centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth. 

John Given. 



The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy 
enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken. 

Samuel Johnson. 



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Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by 
builders under an arch of stone while it is in the 
progress of construction till the key-stone is put in. 
Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasure to con- 
struct evil habits upon ; the pleasure lasts till the 
habit is fully formed ; but that done, the habit may 
stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, 
and the hell begins in this life. 

Coleridge. 



Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity. 

St. Augustine. 



That is the bitterest of all, — to wear the yoke of 
our own wrong-doing. 

George Eliot. 



They waste life in what are called good resolu- 
tions — partial efforts at reformation, feebly com- 
menced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly con- 
cluded. 

Maturin. 



SIN. 



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We can neither change nor overpower God's 
eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. 

James Martineau. 



The first freedom is freedom from sin. 

Martin Luther. 



Practically every man is an atheist, who lives 
without God in the world. 

A. W. Hare. 



To get rid of your doubts, part with your sin. 
Put away your intemperance, your dishonesty, your 
unlawful ways of making money, your sensuality, 
your falsehood, acted or spoken, and see if a holy 
life be not the best disperser of unwelcome doubts, 
and new obedience the most certain guide to fresh 
assurance. 

James Hamilton^. 



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Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself. 

Thomas Brooks, 



Go on your knees before God. Bring all your 
idols ; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust 
before Him, and give them up Devote yourself, 
heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not 
" know of the doctrine." 

H. W. Beecher. 

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger 
objects on the horizon ; and splendors born only of 
the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes 
covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, 
and quenches transcendent glories with a little shin- 
ing- dust. 

E. H. Chapin. 

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, 
any remedy for sin. 

Horace Bushnell. 



SALVATION. 



ITS NATURE. 



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T is the grand endeavor of the gospel to com- 
municate God to men. 

Horace Bushnell. 



Christ died for the ungodly. And if you turn to 
Him at this moment with an honest heart, and re- 
ceive Him simply as your Saviour and your God. I 
have the authority of His word for telling you that 
He will in no wise cast out. 

D. L. Moody. 

When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my 
salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, 
either in heaven or earth. 

Rutherford, 



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The law discovers the disease. The gospel 
gives the remedy. 

Martin Luther. 



You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a 
Divine success. "Who shall lay any thing to the 
charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth." 

Edward Thomson. 

Not as men of science, not as critics, not as 
philosophers, but as little children, shall we enter 
into the kingdom of heaven. 

. J. C. Shairp. 



SALVATION : 



INVITATION AND WARNING. 

IT is not in understanding a set of doctrines ; not 
in outward comprehension of the " scheme of sal- 
vation, " that rest and peace are to be found, but in 
taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke 
of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

F. W. Robertson. 



SALVATION: INVITATION AND WARNING. 



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We are to come to Christ. This is the primal 
duty. The doctrines are but highways that lead to 
Him. But when we come to Christ we must receive 
Him as our Saviour. 

D. L. Moody. 



Sinner, listen now. Christ knocks again. Here, 
in the hush of this still hour, He waits to be received 
and welcomed. Peace like a river, joy such as 
angels do not know, hopeful of an ever-brightening 
and evermore blessed immortality — all heavenly 
benedictions would be thine — "if thou knewest the 
gift of God. " 

Her rick Jo h n son. 



Lord! Thou a t near to those that have not 
known Thee ; open their eyes that they may see 
Thee— see Thee wee; ing over diem, and saying, 
"Ye will not come unto me that ye might have 
life," — see T^ee hanging on the cross and saying, 
"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they 
do"— see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy 
glory to judge them at the last Amen. 

Geo ' ge Eliot. 



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Eternal life does not depend upon our perfec- 
tion ; but because it does depend upon the grace of 
Christ and the love of the spirit, that love shall prompt 
us to emulate perfection. 

William Adams. 



O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin 
of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed 
hands and feet I cannot bear ; take it all away ! 
Hide me in the depths of Thy suffering love, mold 
me to the image of Thy divine passion. 

Horace Bushnell. 



It is a very solemn thought that God will ex- 
cuse you if you want to be excused. He does not 
wish to do it, but He will do it. 

D. L. Moody. 



Exercise your God-given power of trust Look 
up ! Salvation is provided, and nothing remains to 
be done. Take hold ! Take hold ! Do not wait ! 

Bishop Janes. 



SALVATION: REPENTANCE 



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SALVATION: 



RFPENTANCE. 




ODS truth is too sacred to be expounded to 
superficial worldliness in its transient fit of 
earnestness. 



F. W. Robertson. 



Sinners, remember this : It is not so much the 
sense of your unworthiness as your pride that keeps 
you from a blessed closing with the Saviour. 

Thomas Brooks. 



True repentance consists in the heart being 
broken for sin and broken from sin. 

Thornton. 

Go to Jesus, O sinner, this day, this moment, 
with all thy sins about thee ! Go just as thou art, for 
if thou wilt never apply to Him till thou are first 
righteous and holy, thou wilt never be righteous and 
holy at all. 

Philip Doddridge. 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



To grie 

F. W. Robertson. 



grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is 

another. 



True repentance is to cease from sin. 

St. Ambrose. 



God has promised forgiveness to your repent- 
ance ; but He has not promised to-morrow to your 
procrastination. 

St. Augustine. 



Know what your sin is and confess it ; but do 
not imagine that you have approved yourself a peni- 
tent by confessing sin in the abstract. 

T. L. Cuyler. 



Christian penitence is something more than a 
thought or an emotion or a tear ; it is action. 

William Adams. 



SALVATION: REPENTANCE. 



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Any pleasure which takes and keeps the heart 
from God is sinful, and unless foi?aken, will be fatal 
to the soul. 

Richard Fuller. 



The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole 
world to know that though He pardons sin, He will 
not protect it. 

Joseph Alleine. 



A man may beat down the bitter fruit from an 
evil tree until he is weary ; whilst the root abides in 
strength and vigor, the beating down the present 
fruit will not hinder it from bringing forth more. 

John Owen. 



If you would know Christ at all, you must go to 
Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him 
altogether. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



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Embrace in one act the two truths — thine own 
sin, and Gods infinite mercy in Jesus Christ. 

Alexander Maclaren. 

God forgives ; forgives not capriciously, but 
with wise, definite, Divine pre-arrangement ; for- 
gives universally, on the ground of an atonement, 
and on the condition of repentance and faith. 

R. S. Storrs. 



SALVATION : 



OBEDIENCE. 

WHAT right has a man to ask Jesus to for- 
give him, when his heart is still burning 
with hatred or festering with grudges 
against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any 
avail, must let go of Us hold on the ™™f^f 



You are not to come to Christ because you are 
qualified, but that you may be qualified with what- 
ever you want ; and the best qualification you can 
bring is a deep sense that you have no worth or ex- 
cellency at all.in you. ^ 

Take the lost sinner's place, and claim the lost 
sinner's Saviour. w p Mackay . 



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A heart renewed— a loving heart— a penitent 
and humble heart— a heart broken and contrite, pur- 
ified by love— that and only that is the rest of men. 
Spotlessness may do for angels, repentence unto life' 
is the highest that belongs to man. 

F W. Robertson. 



"But what can mortal man do to secure his own 
salvation ? " Mortal man can do just what God bids 
him do. He can repent and believe. He can arise 
and follow Christ as Mp+thew did. 

W. Gladden. 



"Arise, take up thy bed and walk." You are on 
your bed now. You put yourself there by your own 
sin. You have kept yourself there by your own 
choice. Every sinner is a sinner because he chooses 
to be; and you are no exception. Jesus commands 
you to repent and trust Him and follow Him. The 
moment you are willing to obey, He gives you 
strength to obey. 

T. L. Cuylet\ 



SALVATION; OBEDIENCE. 



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< < Follow me ! " The publican ' ' rose up. " This 
implies immediate action. It was now or never with 
him. So you must act with prompt obedience. He 
did the first thing Jesus bade him do. Are you will- 
ing to do as much ? If not, you are decided against 
Christ and that means death. 

T. L. Cuyler. 



When you do what the poor weary dove did— 
when you just betake yourself to the one only ark 
for safety, the infinite Love will put forth His hand, 
and draw you in ! Into union with Christ ! Into 
renewing grace and supporting strength ! Into 
peace 1 Oh ! wondrous peace ; oh ! sweet, satisfy- 
ing peace ; oh ! peace of God that passeth under- 
standing ! 

T. L. Cuyler. 



None shall be saved by Christ but those only 
who work out their own salvation while God is work- 
ing in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We 
cannot do without God ; and God will not do with- 
out us. 

Matthew Henry. 



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I take one decisive and immediate step, and re- 
sign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour. 

Thomas Chalmers. 

SALVATION : 
SAVING FAITH. 

FAITH is the act of trust by which one being, a 
sinner, commits himself to another being, a 
Saviour. 

Horace Bushnell. 

Lay hold on Christ with both your poor, empty 
hands, 

Elizabeth Prentiss. 

Faith is a simple trust in a personal Redeemer. 
The simpler our trust in Christ for all things, the 
surer our peace. 

William Adams. 

Your Bible does not say "Weep, and be saved." 
It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better 
than feeling. 

T. L. Cuyler. 



SALVATION: SAVING FAITH. 



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Saving faith is confidence in Jesus; a direct, 
confidential transaction with Him. 

Richard Fuller. 



We are not saved by nations or by churches or 
by families, but as individuals, through a personal 
interest in a personal Saviour. 

John James. 



This saving faith is the perceiving, believing, 
and resting upon a fact— the atoning death of Jesus 
Christ. The failure to understand this is one fruitful 
cause of the confusion in many minds about this 
subject. For, not unfrequently, persons are looking' 
into their own hearts, and trying to discover whether 
they have faith or not, instead of looking away from 
themselves altogether at the object of faith. 

M. R. Vincent. 



Trust Christ ! and a great benediction of tranquil 
repose comes down upon the calm mind and the 
tranquil heart 

Alexander Maclaren. 



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This is faith ; a simple trust in the power and 
willingness of the Father to forgive, for the sake of 
what Christ the Son has done. 

Samuel Irenceus Prime. 



I am a sinner and debtor to God. The law has 
a claim against me ; but the gospel says Christ paid 
that claim on the cross. I believe that. I take that 
death as good for my claim, and I say boldly, "It is 
paid." I am tired of sin. Christ bids me rest on 
Him, I do rest on Him. He tells me that if I will 
put myself, sins and all, with all my weakness — put 
my stained past, the guidance of the present, the 
whole matter of the future, into His hands, and leave 
it with- Him, He will take care of the whole. I do 
put it all into His hands.. I lay my sins on Jesus. 
I rest my whole life on Him. 

M. R. Vincent. 



We must not close with Christ because we feel 
Him, but because God has said it, and we must take 
God's word even in the dark. 

Robert McCheyne 



SALVATION: SAVING FAITH. 



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Relying on the atonement which Christ has 
made, and desiring- to be saved in no other way, I 
commit myself into Thy hands, 0 God, my Father ! 
Take me, and do with me as Thou secst to be for 
Thy glory. I consecrate myself forever to Thy ser- 
vice, and trust for acceptance in the merits of Thy 
Son. 

Samuel Irenceus Prime. 



We are to do what Paul meant, when he said 
that he had committed to Christ what He is well able 
to keep. You have treasures that you dare not leave 
in your own house, and so you lock them up in 
some vault. When they are thus secured, you feel 
little anxiety regarding them. 

Geo. C. Lorimer. 

Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, 
and not on your respectable life, and the obedience 
that follows Him, are the indispensable steps to sal- 
vation. You admit that you have not taken the. e 
decisive steps. Then, however near you are, you 
are not in Christ. 

T. Z. Cuylcr. 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



Be reconciled to God. Distinctly and deliberately 

devote yourself to His sen-ice. Lead a life of daily 
devotion. Renounce besetting sins. Make the 
Lord's service your study, 

James Hamilton. 

You have " done all you could " to save your- 
self; and yet you have accomplished nothing. Fly, 
then, to Christ, — to Christ, just as you are, just as un- 
worthy — to Christ now, ''while it is called to-day. 
Be assured you are welcomed to all His benefits. 

Ichabod Spencer. 

When he abandoned all attempt to save himself, 
Jesus Christ saved him. This was all he knew about 
it. And more, this was all there was about it. 

Ichabod Spencer. 

Not till we come to a simple reliance on the 
blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know 
what it is either to have trust in God, or know what 
it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteous- 
ness and true holiness. 

Chalmers. 



SALVATION: SAVING FAITH. 



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The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my 
merit is not sufficient. 

St Augustine. 

Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel 
which brings a present salvation ; and try to feel 
that it is not presumption, but simply out of the very 
fundamental principle of it, when you are not afraid 
to say, "I knozv that my Redeemer is yonder, and I 
know that He loves me." 

Alexander Maclaren. 

Staying where you now are, you must perish ; 
coming to Christ, you can but perish ; coming to 
Christ, no . one ever did perish; while you sit still 
and starve, there is bread enough and to spare in 
your Fathers house. Will you return? 

Samuel Irenceus Prime. 

To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness 
and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a 
rock and another in the. quicksands. Christ will 
either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or 
else nothing at all. 

Thomas Erskine. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



.• One look outward to Jesus and you are saved; 
not a look inward to a feeling that can give nothing 
but despair to the conscientious soul. 

W. P. Mackay. 

Conversion is the act of joining our hands to the 
pierced hand of the crucified Saviour. The new life 
begins with the taking of Christ's hand, and His 
taking hold, in infinite love, of our weak hands. 

T. L. Cuyler. 

The time when I was converted was when re- 
ligion became no longer a duty, but a pleasure. 

Pro/. Lincoln. 

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and 
Christ sends us to the law to be regulated. 

John Flavel. 



SALVATION : 



ITS COMPLETENESS. 

MY observation continues to confirm me more 
and more in the opinion, that to experience 
religion is to experience the truth of the great 
doctrines of Divine grace. 

Ichabod Spencer. 



There under the cross is the sinner's sanctuary 
— there, my friend, is the place for you and me. The 
first smiling look we shall get from God will be when 
looking unto Jesus ; and the first time that we shall 
experience the alacrity of a lightened conscience, 
the relief and elasticity of the great life-burden lifted 
off, will be when we have laid our sins on the Lamb 
of God. 

James Hamilton. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



My friends, there is one spot on earth where the 
fear of Death, of Sin, and of Judgment, need never 
trouble us, the only safe spot on earth where the 
sinner can stand — Calvary. 

D. L. Moody. 

Do you feel that you have lost your way in life ? 
Then God Himself will show you your way. Are 
you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul ? Then 
God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you 
up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts 
and terrors ? Then God's eternal light is ready to 
show you your way ; God's eternal peace ready to 
give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins 
and faults ? Then take heart ; for God's unchange- 
able will is, to take away those sins, and purge you 
from those faults. 

Charles Kiitgsley. 



Let us pray God that He would root out of our 
hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out 
there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing 
all manner of fruits. 

Fenelo?i. 



SAL VA TIOA 



ITS COMPLETENESS. 



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Brethren,, is not this the Saviour that you need? 
one who can save you from the utmost depths of 
depravity, in the utmost corner of the earth, on the 
utmost inch of time ? One who can save you amidst 
the utmost urgency of fierce temptations, and who 
in the uttermost extreme of exhausted nature, when 
heart and flesh do faint and fail, completes the work, 
and seals the salvation for evermore ? 

James Hamilton. 



Up with the banner of your new Lord, Jehovah 
Jesus ! Raise it in firm decision, with quiet earnest- 
ness and with humble prayer ; keep it with unflinch- 
ing* fortitude, and be ready to die rather than dis- 
honor it. ■ „ _ rrl . 

Wm. M. laylor. 



O Lord ! take my heart, for I cannot give it : and 
when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it 
for Thee ; and save me in spite of myself,* for Jesus 

Christ's sake. „ 

Fenelon. 



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Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, 
find a common level in two places— at the foot of 
the cross, and in the grave. 

C. C. Co Hon. 



It is not the fact that a man has riches which 
keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact 
that riches have him. 

J. Caird. 



LOVE TO GOD AND CHRIST. 



L 



OVE is the active, working principle in all true 
faith. It is its very soul, without which it is 
dead. " Faith works by love. " 

Jonathan Edwards. 



Love is the emblem of eternity ; it confounds all 
notion of time ; effaces all memory of a beginning, 
all fear of an end. 

Madame De Slael. 



* LOVE TO GOD AND CHRIST. 



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Love is the foundation of all obedience. With- 
out it, morality degenerates into mere casuistry. 
Love is the foundation of all knowledge. Without it 
religion degenerates into a chattering about Moses 
and doctrines and theories ; a thing that will neither 
kill nor make alive, that never gave life to a single 
soul or blessing to a single heart, and never put 
strength into any hand in the conflict and strife of 
daily life. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



All true love to God is preceded in the heart by 
these two things — a sense of sin, and an assurance of 
pardon. There is no love possible — real, deep, genu- 
ine, worthy of being called love of God — which does 
not start with the belief of my own transgression, and 
with the thankful reception of forgiveness in Christ. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



Love is the greatest thing that God can give us, 
for Himself is love ; and it is the greatest thing we 
can give to God, for it will also give ourselves, and 
carry with it all that is ours. 

Jeremy Taylor. 



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The strongest love which the human heart has 
ever felt has been that for its Heavenly Parent. 
Was it not then constituted for this love ? 

W. E. Channing. 



Only let us love God, and then nature will com- 
pass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses ; and 
all influences from the earth, and things on the 
earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only 
let there be God within us, and then everything out- 
side us will become a godlike help. 

W?n. Mountford. 



Why art thou troubled and anxious about many 
things ? One thing is needful— to love Him and to 
sit attentively at His feet. 

Fenelon. 



Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart 
will not be a great aching void, but will be filled 
with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



LOVE TO GOD AND CHRIST. 



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A mightier love for the Son of God, to over- 
power and subdue and lead captive these wayward 
and truant affections of the natural heart — this is 
what is needed. 

A. J. Gordon 



And so among the ruins of our pride, we grow 
to be loving children of the Most High. 

♦ Win. Mountford. 



Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued 
above all. 

St. Augustine. 



Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and 
no otherwise. 

Thomas Brooks. 



It was a deep true thought which the old painters 
had, when they drew John as likest to his Lord. 
Love makes us like. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



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STAFF AND SUK1F. 



A heart-memory is better than a mere head- 
memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of 
Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat 
every word of every sermon we ever heard. 

Francis de Sales. 



In our fluctuations of feeling, it is well to re- 
member that Jesus admits no change in His affec- 
tions ; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by. 

Rutherford. 

How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall 
I do to believe ? Love. 

Leigh to n. 



The disciple whom Jesus loved leaned on His 
bosom. Dear friend, where are you ? 

Anna Shipton. 



FELLOWSHIP AND COMMUNION WITH JESUS. 



TO abide ever in Christ — to know His fellowship, 



to keep our hearts resting upon His infinite love, 



and there to grow from spiritual infancy to the 
full stature in holiness and love and joy and peace. 
May this be your experience every day and hour, 
strong in Him, fruitful in Him, happy in Him, until 
with the crumbling of the tabernacle of clay, the fel- 
lowship is perfect in the house not made with hands, 
where we shall see Him as He is. 




A. E. Kittredge. 



We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, 
and listen, and be attentive to God. 

Madame Guyon. 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



There it is — in such patient silence — that we ac- 
cumulate the inward power which we distribute and 
spend in action ; that the soul acquires a greater and 
more vigorous being, and gathers up its collective 
forces to bear down upon the piecemeal difficulties 
of life and scatter them to dust ; there alone can we 
enter into that spirit of self-abandonment by which 
we take up the cross of duty, however heavy, with 
feet however worn and bleeding. 

Way land Hoyt. 



The soul that rightly receives Christ is in a long- 
ing condition ; never did the hart pant for the water 
brooks, never did the hireling desire the shadow, 
never did a condemned person long for a pardon 
more than the soul longs for Christ. 

John Flavel. 



We have communion in Christ's sufferings as we 
die with Him unto self, and rise with Him to our 
proper life — the life of self-surrender to the will of 
God. 

Richard Fuller. 



THE DIVINE PRESENCE. 



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I see that I have too much confined my thoughts 
to God, and that I ought to go directly to the Sav- 
iour's arms, and that I ought to believe, abominable 
as my sins have been, if they have once been par- 
doned, they form no partition between me and the 
heart of Christ 

E. D. Griff en. 

The mistake we make is to look for a source of 
comfort in ourselves : self-contemplation, instead of 
gazing upon God. In other words, we look for com- 
fort precisely where comfort never can be. 

F. W. Robertson. 

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, where- 
by, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He 
were nearer at hand. 

Owen Fellham. 



THE DIVINE PRESENCE. 

LIFE should be a constant vision of God's pres- 
ence. Here is our dufense against being led 
away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar 
attractions. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



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One thing alone my heart requires, — one gleam 
of living light amid the ashes and the gloom; that 
into my cell of humiliation the flood of Divine pity 
should break, and keep aglow the openings of eter- 
nal hope, and sustain the hidden strength of an ever- 
lasting love. 

Ja?nes Martineau. 

Ah, my friends, it is not only from the study 
walls of pastors, but from the walls of every shop, 
every counting-room, and every hall of justice and 
legislation, that the countenance of the all-holy Jesus 
is looking down, and saying, ''Do all for me." 

T. L. Cuyler. 

. • The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the 
form which our circumstances most require. 

Alexander Maclaren. 

I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise 
way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of 
His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my 

ways ! 

Ruth erf or d. 



THE DIVIAE PRESENCE. 



73 



When you have honestly and penitently sought 
out Christ, and confessed your sins to Him, and put 
yourself wholly in His hands, then stay there. Fol- 
low Him. Keep close to Him and Him alone. In 
your store, in your shop, in your field, in your home, 
or wherever you are, be ever saying, "Now, Jesus, 
Lead me ! Teach me Thy way ! Hold fast to my 
hand ! " 

T. L. Cuyler. 



A Christian is a man in Christ. "If any man be 
in Christ." A Christian is a man for Christ. 
"Glorify God in your body and spirit which are 
God's " 

Richard Fuller. 



The minister, who would be most like the Mas- 
ter, must go and, like Him, lay the warm, kind'y 
hand on the leper, the diseased, the wretched. He 
must touch the blind eyes with something from him- 
self. The tears must be in his own eyes over the 
dead who are to be raised to spiritual life. Jesus is 
our great exemplar. 

John Hall. 



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We must imitate Jesus ; live as He lived, think 
as He thought, and be conformed to His image, 
which is the seal of our sanctification. 

Fenelon. 



Now it is the blood of Jesus which saves, and it 
is the same blood which cleanses and sanctifies ; and 
as we had to come to Jesus to be plunged into the 
fountain, so we have to abide in Jesus by fellowship, 
to grow up into Christlikeness. 

A E. Kittredge. 



I have just put my soul ixa a blank into the hand 
of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on 
it what He pleases ; I know it will be His image. 

Whitfield. 

Lord Jesus, engrave Thou Thy name with Thine 
own finger upon my heart, that it may remain closed 
to worldly joy and worldly pleasure, self-interest, 
fading honor, and low revenge, and open only to 
Thee. 

Christian Scriver. 



fHE DIVINE PRESENCE. 



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The more the soul is conformed to Christ, the 
more confident it will be of its interest in Christ. 

Thomas Brooks. 



Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will 
easily believe in living again as Christ does. 

Wm. Mountford. 



LIKENESS TO CHRIST.— FOLLOWING CHRIST. 



Y friends, let us try to follow the Saviours 
steps ; let us remember all day long what it is 
to be men ; that it is to have every one whom 
we meet for our brother in the sight of God ; that it is 
this, never to meet any one, however bad he may be, 
for whom we cannot say, " Christ died for that man, 
and Christ cares for him still. He is precious in 
God's eyes, and he shall be precious in mine also." 

Charles Kingsley. 

Believing on Christ, learning of Christ, follow- 
ing Christ,— this is what it is to be a Christian. You 
must believe on Him that you may learn of Him. 
You must learn of Him that you may follow Him. 
But believing is nothing, and learning is less than 
nothing, if they do not result in faithful following. 

W. Gladden. 




FAITH AND TRUST. 



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FAITH AND TRUST. 



ALL the strength and force of man comes from 
his faith in things unseen. He who believes is 
- strong ; he who doubts is weak. Strong con- 
victions precede great actions. The man strongly 
possessed of an idea is the master of all who are un- 
certain and wavering. Clear, deep, living convic- 
tions rule the world. 

James Freeman Clarke 

There is a boundary to the understanding, and 
when it is reached, faith is the continuation of reason 

William Adams 



Faith is letting down our nets into the transpar- 
ent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what 
we shall take. 

F. W. Fader. 



Faith is seated in the understanding as well as 
in the will. It has an eye to see Christ as well as a 
wing to fly to Christ. 

Wat '$ on. 



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How calmly may we commit ourselves to the 
hands of Him who bears up the world ! 

Jean Paul Richter. 

I believe the promises of God enough to venture 
an eternity on them. 

Watts. 



1 have never committed the least matter to Him 
that I have not had reason for endless praise. 

Anna Ship ton. 



Trust in God for great things. With your five 
loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to 
feed thousands. 

Horace Bushnell. 

The believer is no burden to his God, and even 
if you should be carrying whole mountains of care 
and solicitude, they will not make you more burden- 
some or your case more difficult to the Creator of 
the ends of the earth. He fainteth not, neither is 
He weary. 

James Hamilton. 



FAITH A ND TR US T. 



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Faith ever says, " If Thou wilt." not " If Thou 
canst. 

Martin Luther. 

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands. 

/. A. Garfield. 

It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey 
God when He commands us to do what we like, and 
to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The 
real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and 
through the dark. Let us be assured of this, that if 
the lesson and the rod are of His appointing, and 
that His all-wise love has engineered the deep tun- 
nel of trial on the heavenward road, He will never 
desert us during the discipline. The vital thing for 
us is not to deny and desert Him. 

T. L. Cuyler. 



Not prayer without faith, nor faith without 
prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual 
gifts and graces, 

H. Clay Trumbull. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



Child of God, if you would have your thought 
of God something beyond a cold feeling of His pres- 
ence, let faith appropriate Christ. 

F. W. Robertson. 



To understand at all what life means, one must 
begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge 
may be sorrow with a man unless he loves. 

Wm. Mountford. 



Faith is the vital artery of the soul. When we 
begin to believe, we begin to love. Faith grafts the 
soul into Christ, as the scion into the stock, and 
fetches all its nutriment from the blessed Vine. 

Watson. 



We believe that the very beginning and end of 
salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of 
faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by 
any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed 
the power of death. 

Martin Luther. 



FAITH AND TRUST. 



Beloved, you that have faith in the fountain, 
frequent it Beware of two errors which are very 
natural and very disastrous ; beware of thinking any 
sin too great for it ; beware of thinking any sin too 

Sma11 ' James Hamilton. 

When my neighbor A— broke in business, and 
twenty-four hours made him a bankrupt, he came 
home, saying to himself, "Well, my money is gone, 
but Jesus is left." He did not merely come down 
to "hardpan, " he came to something far more solid 
—to the everlasting arms. When another friend laid 
her beautiful boy in his coffin, after the scarlet fever 
had done its worst, she laid her own sorrowful heart 
upon the everlasting arms. The dear little sleeper 
was there already The Shepherd had His lamb. 

T. L. Cuyler. 



1 never yet have heard of a good man having 
fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and 
trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one 
exception came from venturing upon sinful ground 
or from venturing upon self-support. ^ ^ Cuyler 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mys- 
teries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resur- 
rection, to the help of the humblest and commonest 
of human wants. 

Phillips Brooks. 



That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round 
Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine 
does round its support. 

Alexander Jfaclare?i. 



" I am trying to trust" said one to me this past 
week, who had heard the earth falling on the casket 
which held the cold form of the dearest human 
friend, "I am trying to trust," and so I have seen 
a bird with a broken wing trying to fly. When the 
heart is broken, all our trying will only increase our 
pain and unrest. But if, instead of trying to trust, 
we will press closer to the Comforter, and lean our 
weary heads upon His sufficient grace, the trust will 
come without our trying, and the promised "perfect 
peace " will calm every troubled wave of sorrow. 

A. E. Kittredge. 



HUMILITY. 



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This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ ; first 
knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that 
belief. 

C. H. Spur g eon. 



HUMILITY. 



HUMILITY is the grace which lies prostrate at 
God's foot-stool, self-abasing and self-dispar- 
aging, amazed at God's mercy, and abhorring 
its own vileness. 

James Hamilton. 



Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, 
and bond of all virtue. 

Chrysostom. 



If you want to work for the kingdom of God, 
and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one 
condition to be first accepted. You must enter into 
it as children, or not at all. 

John Ruskin. 



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with r /T 6S US right W ^ of conversing 

1 kJ ?° 4 v Abraham fdI 011 hlS face ' God 
talked with him." When we plead with Him our 
taces should be in the dust. 

Richard Cecil. 

hu j 1 «;.' ievelhe,irs " es,ofa ' ru "' Kreai ™" i »^ 

John Ruskin. 

They that know God will be humble, they that 
know themselves cannot be proud. 

John FLavel. 

I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to 
give m yself up- in absolute resignation to God to 1 e 
prostate and passive at His feet, with no other d ! 
position m my heart than that of merging my will 
n o His will, and no other language fn my mou h 
than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength 
m my weakness. I desire from the abyss of my own 
nothingness and vileness to cry unto God that He 
might cause me to do as I ought, and to be as I 

Chalmers. 



HUMILITY. 



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Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive 
as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed 
before God. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



Never have I greater reason for suspicion than 
when I am particularly pleased with myself, my 
faith, my progress, and my alms. 

Christian Scnver. 



Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is 
not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is pecu- 
liarly deceitful on just this one thing. 

Ichabod Spencer. 



There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate 
nature than this tendency of power to loudness and 
wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To 
souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest 
sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedi- 
ence, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but 
to its full impersonation. 

James Martineau. 



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O it is a happy thing to feel ourselves helpless 
and naught, for then the presence of God is felt to 
wrap us about so lovingly ! Everlasting, infinite, al- 
mighty, — these are the words that strengthen us with 
speaking them. 

Wm. Mou?itford. 



PATIENCE. 



/^T^ISPOSE thyself to patience rather than to com- 
1 fort, and to the bearing of the cross rather 
^ than to gladness. 

Thomas a Kempis. 



It is not necessary for all men to be great in 
action. The greatest and sublimest power is often 
simple patience. 

Horace Bushnell. 



Never think that God's delays are God's denials. 
Hold on ! hold fast ! hold out ! Patience is genius. 

Count de Buffon. 



PA TIENCE. 



87 



Therefore, let us be patient, patient; and let 
God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. 
Let us try to learn it well and quickly ; but do not 
let us fancy that He will ring the school-bell, and 
send us to play before our lesson is learnt. 

Charles Kingsley. 



Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and 

let patience have her perfect work. 

r Rutherford. 



When I am about my work, sometimes called 
unexpectedly and suddenly from one thing to another, 
I whisper in my heart, " Lord, help me to be patient, 
help me to remember, and help me to be faithful. 
Lord, enable me to do all for Christ's sake, and to go 
forward, leaning on the bosom of His infinite grace/' 

Mary Lyon. 



The disciples of a patient Saviour should be pa- 
tient themselves. 

C. H. Spurgeon. 



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Be patient, my friends ; time rolls rapidly away ; 
our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who 
knows how soon ?— when the maternal lap of ever- 
lasting Love shall be opened to us, and the full 
peace of God breathe around us from the palmy 
summits of Eden. 

Krummacher . 



It is easy finding reasons why other folks should 
be patient. 

George Eliot. 



MANLINESS. 



CHRISTIAN is the gentlest of men ; but the 



The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is 
hed man. Humboldt. 



Let us not undervalue the dignity of human 
nature. Man, although fallen, still retains some 
traces of his primeval glory and excellence- broken 
columns of a celestial temple, magnificent, even in 




C. H. Spurgeon. 



it's ruins. 



John McC. Holmes. 



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Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand 
of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open 
brow God has set the stamp of truth ; one whose 
very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very 
look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness 
veracity ; a brave man-a noble man-frank, gene- 
rous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose free- 
dom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, 
but the form of meanness never. 

F. W. Robertson. 



Nothing is more simple than greatness ; indeed" 
to be simple is to be great. 

R. W. Emerson. 



God would behold in you a simplicity which 
will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it 
contains less of your own. 

Feneion. 



Power in its measure and degree is the measure 
01 manhood. 

J. G. Holland. 



MANLINESS. 



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Bearing bravely the evils that beset us, doing 
cheerfully the duties that are near, trusting in God, 
guided by Christ, fear shall not confound us in the 
way, and death shall find us ready. 

y ' Henry Giles. 



Never does the human soul appear so strong as 
when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an 

in i ury - E. H. Chapin. 



This is life's greatest. moment, when the soul 
unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's bound- 

aries - I T. Hecker. 



Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of 
the vacillating-real in a generation of triflers— true 
amongst a multitude of shams ; when tempted to 
swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its main- 
tenance ; when solicited by the enticement of sin- 
ners, firm as a rock in our denial. 

Wm. M. Punshon. 



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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul 
will be strong to live as well as strong to think. 

R. W. Emerson. 



COURAGE. 



THE conscience of every man recognizes cour- 
age as the foundation of manliness, and man- 
liness as the perfection of human character. 

Thomas Hughes. 



Obedience, submission, discipline, courage — 
these are among the characteristics which make a 
man. 

Samuel Smiles. 



My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your 
face for Christ. 

Rutherford. 



He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong. 

Bovee. 



COURA GE. 



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This is the way to cultivate courage : First, by 
standing firm on some conscientious principle, some 
law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and 
right on small occasions and common events. Third, 
by trusting in God for help and power. 

James F. Clarke. 

Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive 
rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live 
in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven ; do 
your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, 
and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day 
world. Seek to make trade bright with a spotless 
integrity, and business lustrous with the beauty of 

holiness. ^ 

Win. M. Punshon. 

The grandest of heroic deeds are those which 
are performed within four walls and in domestic 

privacy. „ _ 

Jean Paul Richter. 

Be courageous. Be independent. Only re- 
member where the true courage and independence 
come from. 

Phillips Brooks. 



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LIBERTY. 



ONQUER thyself. Till thou hast done that, thou 
art a slave ; for it is almost as well to be in 
^ subjection to another's appetite as thine own. 

Burton. 



Do you wish to be free ? Then above all things, 
love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love 
the common weal ; then you will have true liberty. 

Savonarola. 



The only rational liberty is that which is born of 
subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of 
man, and made courageous in the defense of a trust 
and the prosecution of duty. • 

W. G. Simms. 



There are two freedoms — the false, where a man 
is free to do what he likes ; the true, where a man is 
free to do what he ought. 

Charles Kingsley. 



CHEERFULNESS AND BRIGHTNESS. 95 



This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free 
man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking 
from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling 
them, do we realize our high origin. 

F. W. Robertson. 



The moment you accept Goers ordering, that 
moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes 
your calling ; you pass from bondage to freedom, 
from the shadow-land of life into life itself. 

H. Clay Trumbull. 



CHEERFULNESS AND BRIGHTNESS. 



EVERY day that is born into the world comes 
like a burst of music, and rings itself all the 
way through ; and thou shalt make of it a 
dance, a dirge, or a grand life-march as thou wilt. 

Ladies' Repository. 



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The soul that perpetually overflows with kind- 
ness and sympathy will always be cheerful. 

Parke Godwin. 



The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued 
cheerfulness. - A 



Montaigne. 



Rejoice in Christ Jesus, for in Him you are com- 
plete. His righteousness is over you, His strong 
arm is around you; and he who pmts his soul in 
Christ's keeping shall never perish nor come into 
condemnation. This is a safe place to rest in. 
" Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? " 

James Hamilton.. 



Efforts to be permanently useful must be uni- 
formly joyous, a spirit all sunshine, graceful from 
very gladness, beautiful because bright. 

Thomas Carlyle. 



CHEERFULNESS AND BRIGHTNESS. 97 



If you would have clear and irrefragable for a 
perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering 
confidence, "lam Thy child/' go to Gods throne, 
and lie down at the foot of it, and let the first thought 
be, u My Father in heaven ; " and that will brighten, 
that will establish, that will make omnipotent in 
your life, the witness of the Spirit that you are the 
child of God. 

Alexander Maclaren, 



Rejoice evermore in your Redeemer, — in His 
truth — His person — His almighty grace — His ever- 
lasting faithfulness — His precious blood whose effi- 
cacy reaches farther than the eye of your conscience 
ever penetrated, and cleanses you from a sinfulness 
more inveterate than you have ever conceived to be 
yours. 

Richard Fuller. 



Nobody can commit his way unto the Lord who 
has not begun by delighting in the Lord ; and no- 
body can rest in the Lord who has not committed 
his way to the Lord. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



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God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, 
in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only 
the notes and chords that are sounded out in the 
preparation — preludes to the perfect harmony that 
shall flood the soul — forerunners of the perfected and 
rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that ex- 
ceeding and eternal weight of glory. 

Herrick Johnson. 

Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at 
the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of 
God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and 
even in the things that He refuses to us ; so as to 
see our whole life in the light of God ; and seeing this, 
to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him. 

Manning. 

There is no inevitable connection between Chris- 
tianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, 
that you must always dress it with vinegar? 

Wm. M. Punshon. 



HOLINESS. 



W 



HAT Christianity in her antagonism with 
every form of unbelief most needs is holy 

livi1 ^ Ckfismeb. 



Though the moral law has ceased as a covenant, 
it remains as a rule of life. It will forever continue 
as the standard of holiness. 

Charles Backus. 



It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ 
than to live always for Him. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



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We must keep up the standard of Christian liv- 
ing in the Christian laborer. Clean hands are needed 
to do Christian work. Character is before co-opera- 
tion, being before doing. "Take heed unto thyself, 
and unto the doctrine/' 

John Hall. 

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness 
cherished now is eternal life already entered on ! 

W. E. Channing. 

A Christian is a believer in Jesus. Pie believes 
that if he only throws his own lost and sinful soul on 
the Redeemer, there is in His sacrifice sufficient merit 
to cancel all his guilt, and in His heart sufficient love 
to undertake the keeping of his soul for all eternity. 
He believes that Jesus is a Saviour. He believes 
that His heart is set on His people's holiness, and 
that it is only by making them new creatures, pure- 
minded, kind-hearted, unselfish, devout, that He can 
fit them for a home and a life like His own, that He 
can fit them for the occupations and enjoyments of 
heaven. And believing all this he prays and labors 
after holiness. 

James Hamilton. 



HOLINESS. 



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He who believes in goodness has the essence of 
all faith. He is a man "of cheerful yesterdays and 
confident to-morrows." 

J. F. Clarke. 



Holiness is religious principle put into motion. 
It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on 
the feet, and with the hands of love to men. It is 
faith gone to work. It is charity coined into actions, 
and devotion breathing benedictions on human suf- 
fering, while it goes up in intercession to the Father 
of all piety. 

F. D. Huntington. 



Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your 
own experience, the sad divorce which has too often 
existed between intellect and piety. Take your 
stand, unswerving, heroic, by the altar of truth ; and 
from that altar let neither sophistry nor ridicule expel 
you. Let your faith rest with a child's trust, with a 
martyr's grip, upon the truth as it is in Jesus. 

Wm. M. Punshon. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



There is no piety in the world which is not the 
result of cultivation, and which cannot be increased 
by the degree of care and attention bestowed upon it. 

Albert Barnes. 



We can do more good by being good than in any 
other way. 

Rowland Hill. 



Seekest thou a place at my right hand? Nay, I 
give thee a more wondrous dignity. "To him that 
overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne. '"' 

Alexander Maclaren. 



And now because you are His child, live as a 
child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, 
which is false to your nature, into the life of good- 
ness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all 
that is mean ; hate all that is false ; struggle with all 
that is impure. Live the simple, lofty life which 
befits an heir of immortality. 

F. W. Robertson. 



HOLINESS. 



103 



If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, noth- 
ing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of morti- 
fying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in 
grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to 
the' Divine commands, how can it be that you have 
been brought nigh by the blood of Christ? 

Gardiner Spring. 

We cannot control the evil tongues of others ; 
but a good life enables us to despise them. 



It is Gods purpose to save— to save His people 
from their sins, to purge out of them all hypocrisy, 
falsehood, injustice, and make of them honest men, 
true men, just men— men created anew after His 
likeness. And this is the meaning of His salvation ; 
and is the only salvation worth having, for this life 
or the life to come. 

Charles Kingsley.- 

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither 
should he rise upon our confidence. 

C. C. Cotton. 



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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush 
to think a falsehood ; it is the crime of cowards. 

Samuel Johnson. 



The deliberate and habitual practice of any form 
of dishonesty or immorality is impossible to one who 
follows Christ. 

W. Gladden. 



The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, 
goes down ; and the armed battalions of God march 
over him. 

Wendell Phillips. 



Carefully purify your conscience from daily 
faults ; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart ; small as 
it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs 
do wn the soul, and hinders that constant communion 
with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure 
to cultivate. 

Fenelon 



HOLINESS. 



The piety that keeps the Sabbath with a great 
zeal of devotion, yet fails to keep its possessor honest 
on Monday, is not the kind that is stamped in the 
mint of heaven 

Her rick Johnson. 



Goodness consists not in the outward things we 
do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the 
great thing. 

E. H. Chapin. 



I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, 
hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice ; hate 
Pharisaism ; hate them as Christ hated them — with 
a deep, living, godlike hatred. 

F. W. Robertson. 



A religion that never suffices to govern a man, 
will never suffice to save him. That which does not 
distinguish him from a sinful world, will never dis- 
tinguish him from a perishing world. 

John Howe. 



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Never do what you cannot ask Christ to bless ; 
and never go into any place or any pursuit in which 
you cannot ask Christ Jesus to go with you. 

T. L. Cuyler. 



Think about yourselves ; about what you want, 
what you like, what respect people ought to pay to 
you, what people think oiyou; and then to you noth- 
ing will be pure. May God keep our hearts pure 
from that selfishness which is the root of all sin. 

Charles Kings ley. 



In periods that are wanting in inspiration piety 
always assumes the character of caution. It degen- 
erates from a free and joyful devotion to a melan- 
choly and anxious slavery. 

J. H. Seelye. 



A genuine revival means a trimming of personal 
lamps. 

T. L. Cuyler. 



CONFLICT. 



107 



Holiness is an unselflng of ourselves. 

F % W. Faber. 



The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow 
them, and choke them out with virtues. 

John Bascom. 



The death-bed testimony impresses us only as 
it is the outgrowth of a life. The life is the test. 
Triumphant living is better than triumphant dying. 

E. P. Tenney. 



CONFLICT. 



CONFLICT, not progress, is the word that de- 
fines man's path from darkness into light. No 
holiness is won by any other means than 
this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, 
and hour by hour. 

Alexander Jfaclaren. 



™S STAFF AND SCRIP. 



The religious life is a struggle, and not a hymn. 

Madame de StaeL 

Dear brethren,' make your choice. Fight you 
must. Are you going to win or be beaten ? Make 
your choice of the image you must bear. Whose? 

Alexander Maclaren. 

Brethren, are you in earnest ? If so, though your 
faith be weak, and your struggles unsatisfactory, you 
may begin the hymn of triumph nozv, for victory is 
pledged. " Thanks be to God, which "—not shall 
give, but "giveth us the victory through our Lord 
Jesus Christ." 

F. W. Robertson. 



ACTIVITY. 



CHRISTIAN life is action : not a speculation, 
not a debating, but a doing. One thing, and 
only one, in this world has eternity stamped 
upon it. Feelings pass ; resolves and thoughts pass ; 
opinions change. What you have done lasts— lasts 
in you. Through ages, through eternity, what you 
have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are. 

F. W. Robertson. 



Blessed is the man who has found his work ; let 
him ask no other blessedness. Know thy work, and 
do it ; and work at it like Hercules. One monster 
there is in the work, the idle man. 

Thomas Carlylq. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



The life of man is made up of action and endur- 
ance ; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid 
out in noble action or in patient perseverance. 

H. P. Liddon. 



When you have given yourself to Christ, leave 
yourself there, and go about your work as a child in 
His household. 

C S. Robinson. 



Work is God's ordinance as truly as prayer. 

George D. Boardman. 



The end of man is an action, and not a thought, 
though it were the noblest. 

Thomas Carlyle. 



I have lived to know that the secret of happiness 
is never to allow your energies to stagnate. 

Adam Clarke. 



ACTIVITY. 



1 1 1 



A man's labors must pass like the sunrises and 
sunsets of the world. The next thing, not the last, 
must be his care. 

George McDonald. 



Man must work. That is certain as the sun. 
But he may work grudgingly, or he may work grate- 
fully ; he may work as a man, or he may work as a 
machine. He cannot always choose his work, but 
he can do it in a generous temper, and with an up- 
looking heart. There is no work so rude, that he 
may not exalt it ; there is no work so impassive, 
that he may not breathe a soul into it ; there is no 
work so dull, that he may not enliven it. 

Henry Giles. 



I am not the only one that condemns the idle ; 
for once when I was going to give our minister a 
pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that 
he was asking after, I began with, " He's dreadfully 
lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman, 
" all soits of sins are in that one." 

C. H. Spur g eon. 



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A pure, sincere, and stable spirit is not distracted 
though it be employed in many works ; for that it 
works all to the honor of God, and inwardly being 
still and quiet, seeks not itself in any thing it doth. 

Thomas a Kempis. 



If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin ; and 
there are few stopping places upon it. It is rather a 
precipice than a road. 

H. W. Beecher. 



Some temptations come to the industrious, but 
all temptations attack the idle. 

C. H. S pur g eon. 



Be always employed about some rational thing 
that the devil find thee not idle. 

Si. Jerome. 



Act well at the moment, and you have performed 
a good action to all eternity. 

Lavater. 



ACTIVITY. 



113 



Life passes ; work is permanent It is all going 
— fleeting and withering Youth goes. Mind decays. 
That which is done remains. Through ages, through 
eternity, what you have done for God, that, and only 
that, you are.' Deeds never die. 

F. W. Robertson. 



Ye are born, all of you, to a royal birthright. 
Scorn not the poor, thou wealthy— his toil is nobler 
than thy luxury. Fret not at the rich, thou poor— 
his beneficence is comelier than thy murmuring. 
Join hands, both of you, rich and poor together, as 
'ye toil in the brotherhood of God's great harvest-field 
—heirs of a double heritage— thou poor of thy kingly 
labor — thou rich of thy queenly charity — and let 
heaven bear witness to the bridal. 

Wm. M. Punshon. 



Consider and act with reference to the true ends 
of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an 
immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on 
some chord that will vibrate in eternity. 

E. H. Chapin 



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"The work of men "—and what is that ? Well, 
we may any of us know very quickly, on the con- 
dition of being wholly ready to do it. But many of 
us are for the most part thinking, not of what we are 
to do, but of what we are to get ; and the best of us 
are sunk into the sin of Ananias, and it is a mortal 
one — we want to keep back part of the price ; and 
we continually talk of taking up our cross, as if the 
only harm in a cross was the weight of it — as if it 
was only a thing to be carried, instead of to be — 
crucified upon. "They that are Christ's have cruci- 
fied the flesh, with the affections and lusts/' 

John Ruskin 



At ease in a world in which my Lord was such a 
sufferer ! 

Wm. Mountford. 



We are not to wait/0 be in preparing to be.' We 
are not to wait to do in preparing to do, but to find 
in being and doing preparation for higher being and 
doing. 

Henry Giles. 



ACTIVITY. 



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Learn these two things: never be discouraged 
becat e" ood things get on so slowly here, and never 
Sa l/ho do that good which lies next to your 
hand Do not be in a hurry, but be diligent Enter 
the sublime patience of the Lord. Be chantable 
n view of it. God can afford to wait ; why cannot 
we since we have Him to fall back upon Le 
Ltience have her perfect work, and bring forth her 
SSa fruits. Trust to God to weave your Utile 
thread into a web, though the patterns show it not 
yet. George MacDonald. 

Most people would succeed in small things if 
they were not troubled with great «»b^ 



The man who labors to please his neighbor for 
his good to edification has the mind that was m 
Chit It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even 
a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more 
than a genius, who is rough and art,^ 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



I feel convinced that every man has given him 
of God much more than he has any idea of, and that 
he can help on the world's work more than he knows 
of What we want is the single eye that will see 
what our work is, the humility to accept it, however 
lowly, the faith to do it for God, the perseverance to 
go on till death. 

Norman Macleod. 



Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how 
well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most 
complete salvation. Not by pondering about it nor 
by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its 
preciousness. 

Phillips Brooks. 



We may ialk of the best means of doing good • 
but, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in 
a proper spirit. Speaking the truth "in meekness 
in love, instructing those that oppose themselves '' 
—with the meekness and gentleness of Christ. 

Nettleto?!. 



ACTIVITY. 



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To speak for Him will be our impulse. No 
matter how timid, nervous, self-diffident we are in 
ourselves, as we touch His pierced and royal hand, 
we shall be instantly masterful and strong-. 

R. S. Storrs. 



It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am 
doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus. 

E. Prentiss. 



No true work since the world began was ever 
wasted ; no true life since the world began has ever 
failed. Oh, understand those two perverted words 
''failure" and "success," and measure them by the 
eternal, not the earthly standard. When after thirty 
obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of 
the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre- 
eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city 
to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely 
agony upon the shameful cross — was that a failure ? 
Nay, my brethren, it was the death of Him who lived 
that we might follow His footsteps, it was the life, it 
was the death of the Son of God. 

F. W. Farrar. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



Look to the end ; and resolve to make the service 
of Christ the first object in what remains of life, with- 
out indifference to the opinions of your fellow-men, 
but also without fear of it. 

H. P. Liddon. 



Oh ! it irradiates all our days with lofty beauty, 
and it makes them all hallowed and divine, when we 
feel that not the apparent greatness, not the promi- 
nence nor noise with which it is done, nor the ex- 
ternal consequences which flow from it, but the mo- 
tive from which it flowed, determines the worth of 
our deed in God's eyes. Faithfulness is faithfulness, 
on whatsoever scale it be set forth. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



There is one thing that makes life mighty in its 
veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that 
delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from in- 
significance. All will be great, nothing will be over- 
powering, when, living in communion with Jesus 
Christ, we say as He says, " My meat is to do the 
will of Him that sent me." 

Alexander Maclaren. 



ACTIVITY. 



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The ready, earnest heart that asks, "May I c 
this for Thee, Lord?" not -Must I doit?" has 
blessed reward moment by moment 

Christian at Work. 



Shall I grudge to spend my life for Him who did 
ot grudge to shed His life-blood for me? 

Beveridge. 



The only way to hasten the kingdom is to hasten 
growth; to hasten work, and that, too, along the 
very lines in which the " resounding loom of time ' 
is weaving in its various-colored threads. 

John Bascom. 



And yet the doing is ours, not His. He inspired 
it, we wrought it out. He quickened, but we brougnt 
forth. His the heart beat, but ours the hand-stroke ; 
His the influence, ours the effluence. 

George C. Lorimer. 



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Your salvation is His business ; make His ser- 
vicejyour business and delight. 

Richard Fuller. 



Christ seeketh your help in your place ; ™ 
Him your hand. 

Rutherford. 



The worst days of darkness through which I 
have ever passed have , been greatly alleviated by 
throwing myself with all my energy into some work 
relating to others. 

/ A. Garfield. 



I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no 
time for disputing about His plans. 

George MacDonald. 



Act as if you expected to live a hundred years, 
but might die to-morrow. 

Ann Lee, 



ACTIVITY. 



121 



Thank Him for health. Consecrate it as His 
trust to innocent enjoyment, manly effort, social use- 
fulness, and preparation for an honorable and holy 

career. ^ 7 

W. E. Channing. 



Observe a method in the distribution of your 
time. Every hour will then know its proper em- 
ployment, and no time will be lost. 

Bishop Home. 



A good many people are complaining all the 
time about themselves, and crying out, 4 'My leanness ! 
my leanness ! '*' when they ought rather to say, "My 
laziness ! my laziness ! 

D, L Moody. 



Child of earth and earthly sorrows— child of God 
and immortal hopes— arise from thy sadness, gird up 
the loins of thy mind, and with unfaltering energy 
press forward toward thy rest and reward on high. 

E. L. Magoon. 



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The question is not merely what we can /eel, 
but what we can do for Christ ; not how many tears 
we can shed, but how many sins we can mortify ; 
not what rapture we can experience, but what self- 
denial we can practice ; not what happy frames we 
can enjoy, but what holy duties we can perform. 

John Angell James. 



God does not give excellence to men but as the 
reward of labor. 

Sir Joshua Reynolds. 



God's very service is wages; His ways are 
strewed with roses, and paved with joy that is un- 
speakable and full of glory, and with peace that 
passeth understanding. 

Thomas Brooks. 



This world is given as a prize for the men in 
earnest ; and that which is true of this world is truer 
still of the world to come. 

F. W. Robertson. 



ACTIVITY. 



123 



Nothing is denied to well-directed labor ; nothing 
is ever to be attained without it. 

Sir Joshua Reynolds. 



Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. 

C. N. Bovee. 



Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of 
it If I have not yet finished my course, let me go. 
. and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy 
truth, and come home to die. WMefield . 

You never will be saved by works ; but let us 
tell you most solemnly that you never will be saved 
without works. T.L.Cuykr. 



DUTY. 



BRETHREN, life is passing; youth goes, 
strength decays. But duty performed, work 
done for God— this abides forever, this alone 
is imperishable. 

Richard Fuller. 



Life is of little value unless it be consecrated bv 
duty. J 

Samuel Smiles. 



Men must be either slaves of duty, or the slaves 
of force. 

Joseph Joubert. 



DUTY. 



125 



Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and 
into eternity ; and when the man goes about it reso- 
lutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps 
were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard 
faintly in the atmosphere of this world. 

Wm. Mount ford. 



Duties are ours ; events are God's. This re- 
moves an infinite burden from the shoulders of a 
miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this con- 
sideration only, can he securely lay down his head, 
and close his eyes. 

Richard Cecil. 



This earth will be looked back on like a lowly 
home, and this life of ours be remembered like a 
short apprenticeship to duty. 

Wm. Mountford. 



There is nothing in the universe I fear but that I 
shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it. 

Mary Lyon. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



There is no evil which we cannot face or fly 
from but the consciousness of duty disregarded. 

Daniel Webster. 

Ability involves responsibility. Power to its 
last particle is duty. 

Alexander Maclaren. 

Go to your duty every man, and trust yourself 
to Christ ; for He will give you all supply just as fast 
as you need it. You will have just as much power 
as you believe you can have. Be a Christian ; throw 
yourself upon God's work ; and get the ability you 
want in it. 

Horace Bushnell. 



Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or un- 
certain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn 
may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart : 
"Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee," which 
thou knowest to be a duty ! Thy second duty will 
already have become clearer. 

Thomas Carlyle. 



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127 



Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is 
right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they 
may be printed in. " Large" or -small" are not 
words for the vocabulary or conscience. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



The consciousness of duty performed gives us 
music at midnight. 

George Herbert. 



When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate f 
you if you feel like doing it ; but, if you do not it 
like it, that is no reason for not doing it. 

W. Gladden. 



The doing of things from duty is but a stage on 
the road to the kingdom of truth and love. 

George Mac Donald. 



Happiness is not the end of duty, it is a constit- 
uent of it. It is in it and of it ; not an equivalent, 

but an element. r 

Henry Giles. 



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For honesty is before honor ; and though man 
must write his poems in sounding words, God's 
poems are printed best in the brave and silent duties 
of common life. « 

Edward Garrett. 



The movement of the soul along the path of 
duty, under the influence of holy love to God, con- 
stitutes what we call good works. 

Th o mas Erskme. 



To persevere in one's duty, and to be silent is 
the best answer to calumny. 

George Washington. 



SELF-DENIAL. 



THE sweetest life is to be ever making sacrifices 
for Christ ; the hardest life a man can lead on 
earth, the most full of misery, is to be always 
doing his own will and seeking to please himself. 

Edward H. Bickersteth. 



SELF-DENIAL. 



129 



Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and 
let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things 
and bright alike, like the sunshine of. the Almighty. 

J. R Clarke. 



The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial. 

Matthew Henry. 



Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice ; every 
thing- is lost by failure to obey God's call. 

H. P. Liddon. 



Simpler manners, purer lives : more self-denial ; 
more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie 
below us, nothing short of that can lay the founda- 
tions of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep 
and broad. 

F. W. Robertson, 



BROTHERLY LOVE. 



THE righteousness which is by faith in Christ is 
a loving heart and a loving life, which every 
man will long to lead who believes really in 
Jesus Christ. 

Charles Kingsley. 



Affection is the broadest basis of a good life. 

George Eliot. 



The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest 
love. 

Heine. 

He had a face like a benediction. 

Cervantes. 



BROTHERLY LOVE. 



if you wish to be like a little child, study what 
a little child could understand— nature ; and do what 
a little child could do— love. 

Charles Kingsley. 



Learn the new commandment of the Son of God. 
Not to love merely, but to love as He loved. Go forth 
in this spirit to your life-duties ; go forth— children 
of the cross, to carry everything before you, and 
win victories for God by the conquering power of a 

love like His. _ 

F. W. Robertson. 



The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, 
even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the 
hard ; forbearance toward the unforbearing ; warmth 
of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward 

the misanthropic. m 

Jean Paul Richter. 

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords 
of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a 
sweet violence whether they will or not. 

Gudwortn. 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



Charity is the very livery of Christ. 

Latimer. 



A hfe m any sphere that is the expression and 
outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, takfe- 
counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be 
a life of beneficence in the best possible direction. 

J. G. Holland. 



If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in 
a thou professest thy love to God ; for by thy love 
Sod, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by 
love to thy neighbor, thy love to God is nourished. 

Francis Quarles. 



I expect to pass through this life but once If, 
therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any 
good thing I can do to any fellow-beings, let me do 
it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall 
not pass this way again. 

Mrs. A. B. Hegeman. 



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133 



Be loving, and you will never want for love ; be 
humble, and you will never want for guiding. 

D. M. Craik. 



Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, 
but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses 
and small obligations, given habitually, are what 
win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort. 

Sir Humphrey Davy. 



Kindness has converted more sinners than either 
zeal, eloquence, or learning. 

F. W. Faber. 



Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, 
and words, and thoughts ; daily forgivenesses, un- 
selfishness, kindness, sympathies, charities, sacri- 
fices for the good of others, struggles against temp- 
tation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like 
the blending colors in a picture, or the blending 
notes of music, which constitute the man. 

J. R. Macduff. 



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I have often had occasion to observe, that a 
warm blundering man does more for the world than 
a frigid wise man. 

Richard Cecil. 



A good character is the best tombstone. Those 
who loved you, and were helped by you, will remem- 
ber you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve 
your name on hearts, and not on marble. 

C. H. S pur g eon. 



If good people would but make their goodness 
agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their 
virtue, how many would they win to the good 
cause ! 

Archbishop Usher. 



A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than 
a morose, hard-hearted, covetous, proud, malicious 
Christian. 

Jonathan Edwards. 



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135 



If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, 
sullen, moody, or morose, after his conversion as 
before it, what is he converted from or to ? 

John Angel James. 

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over 
another man than this, that when the injury began 
on his part, the kindness should begin on ours. 

Tillotson. 



Do you who are a Christian desire to be re- 
venged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus 
Christ has not yet been revenged, or His innocence 
vindicated ? 

St. Augustine. 

Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the 
difference between the thought about sinful creatures 
which is natural to a holy being, and the thought 
about sinful creatures which is natural to a self- 
righteous being. The one is all contempt ; the other, 
all pity. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



If there is any person to whom you feel a dis- 
like, that is the person of whom you ought never to 
speak. 

Richard Cecil 



Why should not our solemn duties, and our 
hastening end, render us so united, that personal 
contention would be impossible, in a general sym- 
pathy quickened by the breath of a forbearing and 
pitying charity ? 

Henry Giles. 



Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes ; 
bear with the infirmities of others ; make allowance 
for constitutional frailties ; never say harsh things, 
if kind things will do as well. 

J. R. Macduff. 



There is no room in the universe for the least 
contempt or pride ; but only for a gentle and a rev- 
erent heart. 

James Martineau. 



BRO THERL Y LOVE. 



137 



One of the grandest things in having rights 
is that, being your rights, you may give them up. 

George Mac Donald. 



Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and 
much to pray over ; but He saw nothing to look upon 
with contempt. 

E. H. Chapin 



Nothing will make us so charitable and tender 
to the faults of others as by self-examination 
thoroughly to know our own. 

Fenelon. 



Enough of good there is in the lowest estate to 
sweeten life ; enough of evil in the highest to check 
presumption ; enough there is of both in all estates, 
to bind us in compassionate brotherhood, to teach us 
impressively that we are of one dying and one 
immortal family. 

Henry Giles. 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



We may not substitute charity for godliness ; but 
there is room for the Divine love in the heart which 
has been touched by the human. 

Wm. M. Punshon. 



He who wants to do a great deal of good at 
once, will never do anything. 

Samuel Johnson. 

Proportion thy charity to the strength of thy 
estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness 
of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trum- 
pet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause thou lose 
thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than 
an open hand and a close mouth. 

Francis Quar/es. 



I have more confidence in the charity which 
begins in the home and diverges into a large human- 
ity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins 
at the outside of our horizon to converge into 
egotism. 

Mrs. Jameson. 



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139 



Happiness is not perfected until it is shared. 

Jane Porter. 



It is not my strength that grows, so much as 
God's strength in me, which is given more abund- 
antly as the days roll. It is so given on one condi- 
tion. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the 
exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless 
there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall 
be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of 
His will ; gentler, like Christ ; every way fitter for 
His service, and for larger service, as the days 
increase. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



DISCIPLINE AND SORROW. 



NEVER was there a man of deep piety, who has 
not been brought into extremities— who has 
not been put into fire— who has been taught 
to say, -Though He slay me, yet will I trust in 
Him." 

Richard Cecil 



How full of briers is this working-day world ! 

Shakspeare. 



Some of His children must go into the furnace 
to testify that the Son of God is there with them. 

E. Prentiss. 



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141 



The Christian will sometimes be brought to walk 

in a solitary path. God seems to cut away his props, 

that He may reduce him to Himself. His religion 

is to be felt as a personal, particular, appropriate 

possession. He is to feel, that, as there is but one 

Jehovah to bless, so there seems to him as though 

there were but one penitent in the universe to be 

blessed by Him. ^ 

Richard Cecil. 



Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of 
His disciples watched and prayed in agony. 

H. Clay Trumbull 



Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study 
of God's word by the loss of earthly joys— sickness 
destroying the flavor of them all— did I begin to 
penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. 
And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery ! 
To love Christ, and to know that I love Him— this 

E. Prentiss. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



Marah is always near the mercy-seat, and right 
across the bitter spring we can join hands with Jesus. 

A. Dickson. 



How fast we learn in the day of sorrow ! Script- 
ure shines out in a new effulgence; every verse 
seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands 
out in illuminated splendor ; things hard to be under- 
stood become in a moment plain. 

Bonar. 



Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation 
for great duties. It would seem that the more im- 
portant the enterprise, the more severe the trial to 
which the agent is subjected in his preparation. 

Edward Thomson. 



The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur, 
and the loftiest of our race are those who have had 
the profoundest sympathies, because they have had 
the profoundest sorrov r s. 

Henry Giles. 



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143 



Affliction is the school in which great virtues are 
acquired, in which great characters are formed. 

Hannah More. 



There is many a thing which the world calls dis- 
appointment ; but there is no such thing in the dic- 
tionary of faith. What to others are disappointments 
are to believers intimations of the will of God. 

John Newton. 



Out of suffering have emerged the strongest 
souls ; the most massive characters are seamed with 
scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes 
glittering with tire ; and through their tears have the 
sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven. 

K H. Chapin. 



Extraordinary afflictions are not always the 
punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the 
trial of extraordinary graces. 

Matthew Henry. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



There are times when God asks nothing of His 
children except silence, patience, and tears. 

Charles S. Robinson. 

He who lives to God rests in his Redeemer's 
love, and ,s trying to get rid of his old nature-to 
him every sorrow, every bereavement, every pain 
wi come charged with blessings, and death itself 
will be no longer the "king of terrors," but the mes- 
senger of grace. 

F. W. Robertson. 

ni,h? h 'Jl en 7 e , are J 0 ™^? through the murky 
mght and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow ft 
»s something to find here and there a spray broken 
or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot 
and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to 
remember that the path He trod He has halloved 

strenl" tl and h -den 

strength m the remembrance of Him as "in all 
points tempted like as we are," bearing g rie f /or us 
beanng grief with us, bearing grief /ike US . 

Alexander Madaren. 



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Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all 
unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is 
walking" by our side. 

E. H. Chapin. 



God never makes us sensible of our weakness 
except to give us His strength. 

Fenelon. 



God sometimes washes the eyes of His children 

with tears in order that they may read aright His 

providence and His commandments. 

v T. L. Cuyler. 



As sure as God ever puts His children into the 
furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. 

C. H. Spur g eon. 



Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and 
prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. 

Melanchthon. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



If man were sufficient for man, there would be 
no need for religion. If there were no evils from 
which man could not rescue his brother, there would 
be no need for a Saviour ; if no sorrows under which 
man could not sustain his fellow-man, there would 
be no need of a Divine Comforter. But it is a grief, 
a care like yours, which makes religion a reality! 
Carry it to the throne of grace, and see if there you 
do not find mercy to pardon and grace to help in 
time of need. 

James Hamilton. 



There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened 
by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest 
feelings are sweetened by the mention of them in 
prayer. And agony itself stops swelling, if we can 
only cry sincerely, " My God, my God !" 

W?n. Mount/or d. 



It is impossible for that man to despair who 
remembers that his Helper is omnipotent. 

Jeremy Taylor. 



DISCIPLINE AND SORROW. 



H7 



In our weakness, His strength is ours. In our 
conflicts, His victories are ours. In our bereave- 
ments and sorrows, His grace is ours. He had not 
where to lay His weary head, that we might have 
His bosom on which to lean our fevered brows. 
He endured the cross, and despised the shame, that, 
instead of weeping and wailing, we migfit share His 
immortal blessedness. 

Richard Fuller. 



In the day of prosperity we have many refuges 
to resort to ; in the day of adversity, only one. 

Hor alius Bonar. 



Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, 
not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, 
not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's 
rich and inexhaustible resources. 

George C. Lorimer. 



The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it 
anything but a cup of salvation ? 

Alexander Maclaren. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



_ Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will 
follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispen 
sation of the rays of the sun. P 

Upham. 

shall?"? T G ° d WaS in ° Ur SOrrow ^ we 

deaths m ° re bl6SSedly that He Wi " be in our 

Wm. Mountford. 

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and 
prepare them for the necessity of their fall ; and thus 
insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached 
from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of 
recorded sorrow. 

W. S. Landor. 



Be not cast down. If you saw Him who is 
standing on the shore, holding out His arms to wel- 
come you to land, ye would wade, not only through 
a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with 
rlim, 



Rutherford, 



DISCIPLINE AND SORROW. 



M9 



There will be no Christian but will have a 
Gethsemane ; but every praying Christian will find 
that there is no Gethsemane without its angel. 

T. Binney, 

Every Calvary has an Olivet ; to every place of 
crucifixion there is likewise an ascension. The sun 
that was shrouded is unveiled, and heaven opens 
with hopes eternal to the soul which was nigh unto 
despair. 

Henry Giles. 



The Christian's life on this side and beyond the 
grave is essentially the same, differing only as a 
song which, at a certain point, changes from the 
minor to the major key, and thenceforth wells along 
with still more glorious harmonies. 

John McC. Holmes. 

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and 
where he watches over us as a parent a child that he 
loves ? 

Fenelon, 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



Guided by His wisdom, strong- in His strength, 
there may be for you struggle and suffering, the 
darkness and the storm. "The disciple is not 
above His Master." There may be weeping that 
shall endure for a night, but joy shall come in 
the morning. If the night cometh, so also the morn- 
ing without clouds/' the morning of an eternal day. 

Mark Hopkins. 



The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the 
deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest 
blessing ; the sign, not of God s displeasure, but of 
His widest and most compassionate face. 

Dean Stanley. 



Afflictions are but the shadow of God's wings. 

Geo. MacDonald. 



We should be more anxious* that our afflictions 
should benefit us than that they should be speedily 
removed from us. 

Robert Hall. 



DISCIPLINE AND SORROW. 



Every man must bear his own burden, and it is 
a fine thing to see any one trying to do it manfully ; 
carrying his cross bravely, silently, patiently, and in 
a way which makes you hope that he has taken for 
his pattern the greatest of all sufferers. 

James Hamilton. 



We must bear our crosses ; self is the greatest of 
diem all. If we die in part every day of our lives, 
we shall have but little to do on the last. 0 how 
utterly will these little daily deaths destroy the power 
of the final dying ! 

reneLon. 



Taking up one's cross, my dear, means simply 
that you are to go the road which you see to be the 
straight one ; carrying whatever you find is given 
you to carry, as well and stoutly as you can ; with- 
out making faces, or calling people to come and look 
at you. Above all, you are neither to load, nor 
unload yourself, nor cut your cross to your own 

John Ruskin. 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from im- 
patience. 

Bishop H oi' ?ie. 



Under the banner of the Saviour's dying love, I 
feel it to be the most precious privilege in the universe 
to deny myself, to take up my cross, and to follow 
the Lord whithersoever He goeth. 

Mary Lyon. 



He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads 
himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast 
all my cares on God ; He hath bidden me ; they 
cannot burden Him. 

Bishop Hall. 



God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when 
His children help each other by their testimonies to 
His goodness, and the way in which He has .brought 
them deliverance. 

Horace Bushnell. 



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153 



What is resignation ? It is putting- God between 
one's self and one's grief. 

Madame Swetchine. 



My will, not Thine be done, turned Paradise into 
a desert. " Thy will, not mine be done, " turned the 
desert into Paradise, and made Gethsemane the gate 
of heaven. 

Pressense. 



Jesus knows that we had rather labor than suffer ; 
and that we would rather labor and suffer, too, than 
be laid aside. No man is fit to rise up and labor, 
until he is made willing to lie still and suffer as long 
as his Master pleases. 

Edward Pay son. 



Even when the shadows of trial are falling 
around us, let us " pass through the cloud'' with the 
sustaining motive — "All my wish, O God, is to 
please and glorify Thee." 

7. P, Macduff. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



To bear adversity with meek submission to the 
will of God ; to endure chastisement with all long- 
suffering and joyfulness ; to appear cheerful amid 
surrounding gloom, hopeful amid desponding cir- 
cumstances, happy in God when there is nothing 
else to make us happy ; he who does this has indeed 
made great advances in the divine life. 

J0I171 Angel fames. 

In the highest class of God's school of suffering 
we learn, not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing 
in tribulation. 

J. H. Vincent. 

O, to have the soul bathed all day long in this 
thought, " as the pebble in the willow brook " until 
the words come like the tears, because the heart is 
full, and we cannot help it ; to feel, in the darkest 
hour, that there is an unseen spectator whose eyes 
rest on us like morning on the flowers ; and that in 
the severest sorrow, we can sink into a presence 
full of love and sympathy, deeper than ever breathed 
from earth or sky or loving hearts — a presence in 
which all fears and anxieties melt away as ice- 
crystals in the warm ocean. This is heaven. 

Edward Tfiomson. 



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PEACE AND REST. 



AND, so, in calm expectation of a blessed future 
and a finished work which will explain the past, 
in honest submission of our way to God, in 
supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our 
joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



Sit thou at the feet of Christ, and within the 
influence of His all-composing calmness thine all- 
disturbing activity shall be gently soothed into quiet- 
ness and peace ; there thy weary soul shall find rest 
and bliss. 

George C. Lor inter. 



A consistent Christian may not have rapture ; he 
has that which is much better than rapture — calm- 
ness — God s serene and perpetual presence. 

F. W. Robertson. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart 
never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee. 

St. Augustine. 

I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of 
a wilful sin between myself and God. 

George Eliot. 

If thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then 
attain to the everlasting rest ? Dispose not thyself 
for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true 
peace— not in earth, but in heaven ; not in men, nor 
in any other creature, but in God alone. 

Thomas a Kent pis. 

Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher 
of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not 
let a hard place here and there in the bed destroy 
your re^t Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a 
buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of 
God in your daily life. 

Alex an d er Maclaren. 



PEACE AND REST. 



i57 



Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of 
the soul ; He is the very Sabbath of the soul. 

John FlaveL 



If there is any thing that can render the soul 
calm, dissipate its scruples, and dispel its fears, 
sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart 
strength to it in all its actions, and spread abroad 
the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and 
words, it is a simple, free, and child-like repose in 
the arms of God. 

Fenelon. 



After all there is a weariness that cannot be pre- 
vented. It will come on. The work brings it on. The 
cross brings it on. Sometimes the very walk with 
God brings it on, for the flesh is weak ; and at such 
moments we hear softer and sweeter than it ever 
floated in the wondrous air of Mendelssohn, "O rest 
in the Lord/' for it has the sound of an immortal 
requiem : " Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, 
for they rest from their labors. " 

James Hamilton. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



The Princess Elizabeth, of England, was found 
dead with her head resting on her Bible, open at these 
words, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are 
heavy laden, and I will give you rest." So may we 
all fall asleep at last when the day's work for Jesus is 
over, and wake up in heaven to find ourselves in the 
delicious rest that remaineth for the people of God. 

T. L. Cuyler. 



PRAYER. 



RAYER pulls the rope below, and the great 
bell rings above in the ears of God. Some 
scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so lan- 
guidly ; others give but an occasional pluck at the 
rope ; but he who wins with heaven is the man who 
grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with 
all his might. 

C. H. S pur g eon. 




True prayer is an earnest soul's direct converse 
with its God. 

T. L. Cuyler. 



Prayer moves the hand which moves the world. 

/ A. Wallace. - 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a 
wish turned Godward. 

Phillips Brooks. 



Consider how august a privilege it is, when 
angels are present, and archangels throng around, 
when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their 
blaze the throne, that a mortal may approach with 
unrestrained confidence, and converse with heaven's 
dread Sovereign ! O, what honor was ever con- 
ferred like this ? 

Chrysostom. 



Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but 
taking hold upon God's willingness. 

Phillips Brooks. 



Like an echo from a ruined castle, prayer is an 
echo from the ruined human soul of the sweet promise 
of God. 

Wm. Arnot. 



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161 



Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our 
thoughts -are either a dissonance or a sweetness and 
a grace ? 

George MacDonald. 



The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God 
gives to His people when they are upon their knees. 
Prayer is the gate of heaven. 

Thomas Brooks. 



"Continuing instant in prayer " The Greek is a 
metaphor taken from hunting dogs that never give 
over the game till they have got their prey. 

Thomas Brooks. 



Are we silent to Jesus ? Think ! Have you 
nothing to ask Him ? Nothing to thank Him for ? 
Nothing to praise Him for? Nothing to confess? 
Oh, poor soul, go back to Bethlehem — to Geth- 
semane, to Calvary, and remember at what a cost the 
vail before the Holies was rent in twain that thou 
mightest enter it. 

Anna Ship ton 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and 
passes on into waiting, even while in sorrow and 
sore need, will always end in thankfulness and tri- 
umph and praise. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



Prayer, with our Lord, was a refuge from the 
storm; almost every word He uttered during the 
last tremendous scene was prayer ; prayer the most 
earnest, the most urgent, repeated, continued, pro- 
ceeding from the recesses of the soul, private, soli- 
tary ; prayer for deliverance, prayer for strength ; 
above every thing prayer for resignation. 

William Paley. 



A certain joytul, though humble, confidence 
becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. 
It is due to Him; when we pray in His name it 
should be without wavering. Remember His merits, 
and how prevalent they must be. " Let us there- 
fore come boldly to the throne of grace." 

Nehemiah Adams. 



PR A YER. 



Have you never observed how free the Lord's 
Prayer is of any material that can tempt to subtle 
self-inspection in the art of devotion ? It is full of an 
outflowing of thought and of emotion toward great 
objects of desire, great necessities, and great perils. 

Austin Phelps. 

Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can 
generous wishes ripen into kind actions ; but there 
is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer. 

Wm. Moufifford. 

In presenting the Divine promises at the throne 
of grace, we present the best of names at a bank that 
is solvent. Let us, when we would pray, consider 
well whether we have a promise for our plea. 

R. M. Offord. 

Prayers born out of murmuring are always dan- 
gerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented 
mood, let us take care what we cry for, lest God 
give it to us, and thereby punish us 

Wm. M. Taylor. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



I think that if we would, every evening, come 
to our Masters feet, and tell Him where we have 
been, what we have done, what we have said, and 
what were the motives by which we have been 
actuated, it would have a salutary effect upon our 
whole conduct. 

Edward Pay son. 

I have been driven many times to my knees, by 
the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere 
else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about 
me seemed insufficient for that day. 

Abraham Lincoln. 



Your child is falling from a window. By the 
action of a natural law he will be killed. But he 
cries out for help, "Father! father!" Hearing his 
call, in this his day of trouble, you rush forth and 
catch him in your arms. Your child is saved. 
Natural law would have killed him, but you inter- 
posed, and, without a miracle saved him. And cannot 
the great Father of all do what an earthly parent 
does? 

Newman Hall. 



PR A YER. 



165 



Are we to suppose that the only being in the 
universe who cannot answer prayer is that One who 
alone has all power at His command? The weak 
theology that professes to believe that prayer has 
merely a subjective benefit is infinitely less scientific 
than the action of the child who confidently appeals 
to a Father in heaven. 

Prof. Dawson. 

Making their lives a prayer. 

Whittier. 

Ah ! well it is for us that God is a loving Father, 
who takes oar very prayers and thanksgivings rather 
for what we mean than for what they are; just as 
parents smile on the trailing weeds that their igno- 
rant little ones bring them for flowers. 

Edward Garrett. 



Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. 
God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless 
services shall have lifeless answers. When men are 
dull, God will be dumb. 

Thomas Brooks. 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



The reason why we obtain no more in prayer, is 
because we expect no more. God usually answers 
us according to our own hearts. 

Richard Alleine. 



How can He grant you what you do not desire 
to receive? 

St. Augustine. 



Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin 
will entice a man to cease from prayer. 

John Bunyan. 



When we pray for any virtue, we should culti- 
vate the virtue as well as pray for it ; the form of 
your prayers should be the rule of your life ; every 
petition to God is a precept to man. 

Jeremy Taylor. 



Let the sermon thou hast heard be converted 
into prayer. 

John Bunyan. 



PRAYER. 167 

Faithful prayer always implies correlative exer- 
tion ; and no man can ask honestly and hopefully to 
be delivered from temptation, unless he has himself 
honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can 
to keep out of it. 

John Ruskin. 



The more we work the more we need to pray. 
In this day of activity there is great danger, not of 
doing too much, but of praying too little for so much 
work. 

Alexander Maclaren. 



Pray over every truth ; for though the renewed 
heart is not " desperately wicked/' it is quite deceit- 
ful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a 
moment. 

Charles Kingsley. 



How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our 
hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers 
answered ! 

A. W. Hare. 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



If any prayer be a duty, then secret prayer must 
be superlatively so, for it prepares and fits the soul 
for all other supplication. 

Thomas Brooks. 



Do you essay to lead others in prayer? Utter 
no word that any that hear you cannot understand. 
Express their need as well as your own. Do not go 
to the mercy-seat on stilts. 

• R. M. Offord. 



Let your prayers be composed of thanksgiving, 
praise, confession, and petition, without any argu- 
ment or exhortation addressed to those who are sup- 
posed to be praying with you. Adopt no fixed forms 
of expression, except such as you obtain from Scrip- 
ture. Express your desire in the briefest, simplest 
form, without circumlocution. Hallow God's name 
by avoiding its unnecessary repetition. Adopt the 
simple devotional phrases of Scripture ; but avoid 
the free use of its figures, and all quaint and doubt- 
ful application of its terms to foreign subjects. Pray 
to God and not to man. 

J. Addis on Alexander, 



PR A YER. 



169 



Let family worship be short, savory, simple, 
plain, tender, heavenly. 

Richard Cecil 



In eternity it will be a terrible thing- for many a 
man to meet his own prayers. Their very language 
will condemn him ; for he knew his duty, but he did 
it not. 

T. L. Cuylcr. 



I have lived to thank God that all my prayers 
have not been answered. 

Jea?i Ingelow. 




THE CHURCH. 



SO, from generation to generation, the spiritual 
church is rising upwards toward its perfection ; 
and, though one after another the workmen 
pass away, the fabric remains, and the great Master- 
builder carries on the undertaking. Be it ours to 
build our portion in a solid and substantial man- 
ner, so that they who come after us may be at once 
thankful for our thoroughness, and inspired by our 
example. 

Wm. M. Taylor. 



Doubtless there are times when controversy 
becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that 
it is an evil. 

Dean Stanley. 



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171 



What elements of power we wield ! Truth un- 
mixed with error, flashing as God's own lightning in 
its brightness, resistless if properly wielded, as that 
living flame ! O what agencies ! The Holy Ghost 
standing and pleading with us to work so that He 
may help us, the very earth coming to the help of 
the Lord Jesus Christ. And yet I am painfully im- 
pressed that we are not wielding the elements of 
Christian achievement nearly up to their maximum. 

T. M Eddy. 

Let the church come to God in the strength of a 
perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness 
and a child-like confidence, and then, either she* has 
no strength, and has no right to be, or she has a 
strength that is infinite. Then and thus will she 
stretch out the rod over the seas of difficulty that lie 
before her, and the waters shall divide, and she 
shall pass through, and sing the song of deliverance. 

Mark Hopkins. 

0 for less of an abstract, controversial Christ- 
ianity, and more of a living, loving, personal Christ. 

Richard Fuller, 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



The world may do without its Niagara, whose 
thundering roar and majestic rush excite the highest 
amazement of mankind, but it cannot spare the 
thousand rivulets that glide unseen and unheard 
every moment through the earth, imparting life, and 
verdure, and beauty wherev«. r they go. And so the 
church may do without its men of splendid abilities, 
but it cannot do without its men of tender, loving, 
forbearing souls. 

David Thomas. 

What if every Christian would say: "Lord, I 
want a revival. Let it begin in me. Give me the 
earnestness, faith, and tenderness that I am looking 
for in others. Make me such a devoted worker as I 
think my minister or brother or sister ought to be. 
Let the revival begin in me, and begin now. 'Lord, 
what wilt Thou have me to do ? ' " 

The Congregationalist. 

Doctrine is the frame-work of life ; it is the 
skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by 
the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean 
creature whose bones become offensive. 

A. J. Gordon. 



THE CHURCH. 



173 



We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse 
our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remem- 
brance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, 
to one another, to the great company of the faithful 
in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's 
disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own 
account, that we will pass simply into the Divine 
hand to take us whither it will. 

James Marti?ieau. 



I do not want the walls of separation between 
different orders of Christians to be destroyed, but 
only lowered, that we may shake hands a little 
easier over them. 

Rowland Hill. 



If there is a sentence in the creed which we can- 
not say together, there is nothing in Christ which we 
would wish to be different ; and heresies of the heart 
are quite as dangerous, and to me as estranging, as 
errors in the head. 

fames Hamilton, 



174 STAFF AND SCRIP. 



It is not the actual differences of Christian men 
that do the mischief, but the mismanagement of those 
differences. 

Philip Henry. 



Division has done more to hide Christ from the 
view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been 
spoken. 

George MacDonald. 



The way to preserve the peace of the church is 
to preserve the purity of it. 

Matthew Henry. 



There is just now a great clamor and demand 
for " culture;/' but it is not so much culture that is 
needed as discipline. 

Prof. Shedd. 



The best days of the church have always been 
its singing days. 

T. L. Cuyler. 



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The church may go through her dark ages, but 
Christ is with her in the midnight ; she may pass 
through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of 
the flame with her. 

C. H S pur g eon. 

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not 
beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, 
what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and 
treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability. 

Horace Bushnell. 

How long must the church live before it will learn 
that strength is won by action, and success by work, 
and that all this immeasurable feeding without action 
and work is a positive damage to it — that it is the 
procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility? 

J. G. Holland. 

DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND JUDGMENT. 

TO the Christian, these shades are the golden 
haze which heaven's light makes, when it 
meets the earth, and mingles with its shadows. 

H. W. Beecher. 



176 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a mag- 
istrate ; but he must die as a man. 

Daniel Webster. 

God's ringer touched him, and he slept. 

Tennyson. 

What a power has Death to awe and hush the 
voices of this earth ! How mute we stand when that 
presence confronts us, and we look upon the silence 
he has wrought in a human life ! We can only gaze, 
and bow our heads, and creep with our broken, stam- 
mering utterances under the shelter of some great 
word which God has spoken, and in which we see 
through the history of human sorrow the outstretch- 
ing and overshadowing of the eternal arms. 

W. W. Battershall. 

Death to a good man is but passing through a 
dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father s 
house into another that is fair and large, lightsome 
and glorious, and divinely entertaining. 

Adam Clarke. 



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Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as with- 
out Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, 
it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus 
Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is 
the jov of saints. 

Pascal. 

Yes, death,— the hourly possibility of it,— death 
is the sublimity of life. 

Wm. Mountford. 



Look forward a little further to the period when 
all the noise and tumult and business of this world 
shall have closed forever. 

J. G. Pike. 

Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see 
that God hath sold the forest to death. 

Rutherford. 



Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose 
about you, that it may be easily dropped when death 
comes to carry you into another world. 

T. Boston. 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



He that always waits upon God is ready when- 
ever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts 
even ; he is a happy man who so lives that death 
at all times may find him at leisure to die. 

Owen Feltham. 



The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited, 
have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples 
were awaiting the summons of death. So far from 
being "a house of mourning," I have often found 
such a house to be a vestibule of glory. 

T. L. Cuyler. 



Beloved in the Lord, if you only will lay hold of 
the Saviour's strength, and cast yourself entirely on 
His kind arm, with His dying grace He will do won- 
ders for you in the dying hour. A great trembling 
may come upon you when you think of going down 
to tread the verge of Jordan ; ' ' for ye have not passed 
this way heretofore/' But Jesus has ; and you shall 
see His footprints on the shore. He will be your 
guide unto death, and through death. 

Alexander Dickson. 



THE CHURCH, 



179 



And when no longer we can see Thee, may we 
reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through 
death to immortality and glory. 

H. W. Beecher. 

Our Lord has written the promise of the resur- 
rection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in 
spring-time. 

Martin Luther. 

And shall they rise, all these ? Will there be a 
trumpet blast so shrill that none of them may refuse 
to hear it, and the soul, re-entering its shrine of emi- 
nent or common clay, pass upward to the judgment? 
"Many and mighty, but all hushed/' shall they sub- 
mit with us to the judgment of the last assize ? And 
in that world is it true that gold is not the currency, 
and that rank is not hereditary, and that there is only 
one name that is honored? Then, if this is the end 
of all men, let the living lay it to heart. Solemn and 
thoughtful, let us search for an assured refuge; 
childlike and earnest, let us confide in the one ac- 
cepted Name ; let us realize the tender and infinite 
nearness of God our Father, through Jesus our Surety 
and our Friend. 

Wm. M. Punshon 



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STAFF AND SCRIP. 



Truly at the day of judgment we shall not be 
examined as to what we have read, but as to what 
we have done; not as to how well we have spoken, 
but as to how religiously we have lived. 

Tliomas a Kempis. 



THE FUTURE LIFE. 

ETERNITY invests every state, whether of bliss 
or of suffering, with a mysterious and awful 
importance, entirely its own. It gives that 
weight and moment to whatever it attaches, com- 
pared to which all interests that know a period fade 
into absolute insignificance. 

Robert Hall. 

We are born for a higher destiny than earth; 
there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, 
where the stars will be spread before us like islands 
that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that 
pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence 
forever. 

Bulwer Lytton. 



THE FUTURE LIFE. 



1S1 



No wearisome days, no sorrowful nights ; no 
hunger or -thirst ; no anxiety or fears ; no envies, no 
jealousies, no breaches of friendship, no sad separa- 
tions, no distrusts or forebodings, no self-reproaches : 
no enmities, no bitter regrets, no tears, no heart- 
aches; " and there shall be no more death, neither 
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more 
pain ; for the former things are passed away. " 

Bishop R. S. Foster. 



After the fever of life — after wearinesses, sick- 
nesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fret- 
fulness, struggling and failing, struggling and suc- 
ceeding — after all the changes and chances of this 
troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death 
— at length the white throne of God — at length the 
beatific vision. 

J. H. Newman. 



I change my place, but not my company. 
While here I have sometimes walked with God, and 
now I go to rest with Him. 

Dr. Preston. 



1 82 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



O, land of rest, how near thou art ! O, judg- 
ment-seat of Jesus, how thin are the clouds that veil 
thee ! Through the rifts and cloudland shine rays 
from this righteous crown. It is "laid up" for him 
whose hope can never be satisfied with less than the 
presence of the King. 

Stephen H. Tyng, Jr. 

When ye are come to the other side of the water, 
and have set down your foot on the shore of glorious 
eternity, and look back again to the waters and to 
your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear 
glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's 
wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, "If God had 
done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had 
never come to the enjoyment of this crown of glory." 

Ruthe?'ford. 

Yes, it is a truth that for a good man,— honored, 
beloved, useful,— with all around him that God ever 
gives to His children here ; —nay, with all that God 
could give him of earth, it would be "gain" to die. 
Heaven is a better, a happier, a more desirable world 
than, this is or can be. 

Albert Barnes, 



THE FUTURE LIFE. 



183 



Death must obliterate all memories and affections 
and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next 
world will be amid the welcomes and loves and 
raptures of those who left us with tearful farewells, 
and with dying promises that they would wait to 
welcome us when we should arrive. And so they do. 
Not sorrowfully, not anxiously, but lovingly, they 
wait to bid us welcome. 

Bishop R. S. Foster. 



Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the 
thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my 
waking may be in the bosom of the Father ; and 
some time it will be, so I trust. 

Wm. Mountford. 



Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the 
heaven to come credible. Christ in you is <c the hope 
of glory." It is the eagle eye of faith which pene- 
trates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things 
of death. He alone can believe in immortality who 
feels the resurrection in him already. 

F. W. Robertson. 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



God would never have let us long for our friends 
with such strong- and holy love, if they were not 
waiting for us. 

Wm. Mountford. 

The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I 
may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the 
other world ; that I may do nothing here but deeds 
that will bear fruit in heaven. 

Jean Paul Richter. 

s 

Oh, when shall the night be gone, the shadows 
flee away, and the morning of that long, long day, 
without cloud or night, dawn ? 

Rutherford. 

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let 
time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own 
littleness. 

Thomas Chalmers. 



HOME. 



THE home came from heaven. Modeled on 
the Father's house and the many mansions, 
and meant the one to be a training place for 
the other, the home is one of the gifts of the Lord 
Jesus — a special creation of Christianity. 

James Hamilton. 

Keep the home near heaven. Let it face toward 
the Father's house. Not only let the day begin and 
end with God, with mercies acknowledged and for- 
giveness sought, but let it be seen and felt that God 
is your chief est joy, His will in all you do the abso- 
lute and sufficient reason. 

lames Hamilton. 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



There is no happiness, there is no misery like 
that growing out of the dispositions which conse- 
crate or desecrate a home. 

E. H. Chapin. 



The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple 
songs of home, the words of encouragement as I 
bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to 
rest the patient bearing with the freaks of my rest- 
less nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs 
and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages 
every sorrow, and sweetens every little success— all 
these return to me amid the responsibilities which 
press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived 
in heaven, and straying had lost my way. 

y. G. Holland. 



A Christian home ! What a power it is to the child 
when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and 
voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand 
on slippery places ! 

A. jE. Kittredge. 



CHILDHOOD, YOUTH AND OLD AGE. 187 



CHILDHOOD, YOUTH, AND OLD AGE. 
ET France have good mothers, and she will 



Children have more need of models than of 



As in the Masters spirit you take into your arms 
the little ones, His own everlasting arms will encircle 
them and you. He will pity both their and your 
simplicity ; and as in unseen presence He comes 
again, His blessing will breathe upon you. 



Never despair of a child. The one you weep the 
most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with 
the sweetest joys. 




have good sons. 



Napoleon Bonaparte. 



critics. 



Joseph Joubert. 



James Hamilton. 



T. L. Cuyler. 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



Bring the little ones to Christ. Lord Jesus, we 
bring- them to-day, the children of our Sunday-schools, 
of our churches, of the streets. Here they are ; they 
wait Thy benediction. The prayer of Jacob for his 
sons shall be my prayer while I live, and when I 
die : " The angel which redeemed me from all evil, 
bless the lads/' 

T. DeWitt Talmage. 



Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as liv- 
ing; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that 
is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is 
blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than 
those of earth. 

Hooker. 



Ye have lost a child — nay, she is not lost to you 
who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but 
only sent before ; like unto a star, which going out 
of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in 
another hemisphere. 

Rutherford. 



CHILDHOOD, YOUTH AND OLD AGE. 189 



Be assured, my dear Anne, that it is only by 
taking our lesson from God and doing- the will of 
God, that we can either please him in time, or be 
happy with Him in eternity. 

Chalmers. 



Precious Saviour ! come in spirit, and lay Thy 
strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and 
girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the 
wolf. 

T. L. Cuyler. 



A Youth thoughtless ! when the career of all his 
days depends on the opportunity of a moment ! A 
youth thoughtless ! when all the happiness of his 
home forever depends on the chances or the passions 
of an hour I A youth thoughtless ! when his every 
act is a foundation-stone of future conduct, and every 
imagination a fountain of life or death ! Be thought- 
less in any after years, rather than now — though 
indeed there is only one place where a man may be 
nobly thoughtless — his death bed. No thinking 
should be ever left to be done there. 

John Ruskin. 



190 



STAFF AND SCRIP. 



Dearest wife, let us go 
thing of ours is in heaven 
exalted Saviour, and we go 



on and faint not ; some- 
besides the flesh of our 
on after our own, 

Rutherford. 



Age is not all decay ; it is the ripening, the 
swelling of the fresh life within, that withers and 
bursts the husk. 

George MacDonald. 



The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral 
of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and 
meditate and be patient till the service is over, and 
in which they may get themselves ready to say 
"Amen " at the last, with all their hearts and souls 
and strength. 

Wm. Mountford 



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" Thaddeus of Warsaw. " 
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" Life of Marion." 
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" Self-Help. " "Duty." 
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"Obligations of the World to the Bible." 
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"Sermons." " John Ploughman's Talks." 
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Stanley, Dean Arthur P., (Eng., 1815- .) 13, 33, I5°> l 7°- 

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" Hours of Devotion." 
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" Emanuel." 

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" Farewell Address." 
Watson, Rev. Richard, (Eng., 1737- 18 16 ) 77, 80. 

"An Apology for the Bible." 
Watts, Isaac, D.D., (Eng., 1674-1748 ) 78. 

" Hymns." 

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